Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power And History; Author: Miller, Richard W.; Paperback

Author: Miller, Richard W.
Paperback
334 pages
Published: December 1984
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0691014132
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In this book Marx is revealed as a powerful contributor to the debates that now dominate philosophy and political theory. Using the techniques of analytic philosophy to unite Marx's generalstatements with his practice as historian and activist, Richard W. Miller derives important arguments about the rational basis of morality, the nature of power, and the logic of testing and explanation. The book also makes Marx's theory of change useful for current social science, by replacing economic determinist readings with a new interpretation in which systems of power relations are the basis of change. Part One discusses Marx's criticisms of the moral point of view as a basis for social choice. The outlook that emerges is humane but antimoral. Part Two argues that Marx' concepts of th