Analytical Marxism

The Analytical Marxism is a philosophical and social scientific mindset of Marxism, which was primarily used in the 1980s in the English language. He tries Marxist issues with methods of analytic philosophy, rational choice to edit or neoclassical approaches. He is brought into a close relationship with the academic September group. This group described himself as a "Non - Bullshit Marxism " and was, in the words of David Miller, characterized by "clear and rigorous thinking about questions did Usually are blanketed by fog Ideological. ". The best known members of the group were Gerald A. Cohen, John Roemer, Jon Elster, Adam Przeworski, Erik Olin Wright, Philippe van Parijs, and Robert -Jan van der Veen.

In the nationwide Republican debate individual scientists have made ​​efforts to analytically - oriented philosophical standards Marx interpretation, especially in the 1970s and 80s. These are, above all Steinvorth Ulrich, Christof Helberger, Joachim Nanninga and Jürgen Schampel. A present an analytical Marx Access attributable to federal republican theorists is Marco Iorio - this also relies explicitly on Cohen and Elster. However, the German Analytical Marxism lacks the politically oriented terms, the work of, eg, Roemer and Cohen have explicitly saw themselves as socialists.

Overall, the Analytical Marxism, been extremely critical both in its Anglo-American as well as its German variant, in (West ) Germany. Klaus Müller criticized especially the technological determinism of Cohen's conception of historical materialism and the methodological individualism of Elster and others, Max Koch dismissed the class terms of Roemer and Wright returned because of their general theory of exploitation, abstracting entirely from capitalist exploitation process and the exploitation concept metaphor degrading, while Ingo Elbe German contributions to analytical Marxism a misdemeanor of the problem horizon of Marx's theory of value accused, but at the same time certain ' recognizes metatheoretical ' merit in the criticism hegelianisierender Dialektikauffassungen.