Preface
1 Marxism: Crisis or Renewal?
PART 1 The Theory of History
2 Classical Historical Materialism
3 What is Historical about Historical Materialism?
4 Historical Trajectories
5 Towards a Reconstructed Historical Materialism
PART II Explanation
6 Marxism and Methodological Individualism
7 Causal Asymmetries
PART III Conclusion
8 Prospects for the Marxist Agenda
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1 is based, in part, on "What is Analytical Marxism?" (Wright), Socialist Review 89/4 (December 1989), pp. 37-56; and "What is a Marxist Today?" (Levine) in Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism, Robert Ware and Kai Nielsen, eds, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume 15 (1989), pp. 29-58.
Chapter 2 is a substantially revised version of "Rationality and Class Struggle" (Levine and Wright), New Left Review 123 (1980), pp. 47-68. The current version is based, in part, on a descendant of the original paper published as Chapter 5 of Arguing for Socialism (Levine) (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984; 2nd edition, London: Verso, 1988).
Chapters 3 and 5 are based on "What's Historical About Historical Materialism" (Levine and Sober), The Journal of Philosophy 82, 6 (June 1985), pp. 304-26; and the revisions of that paper published as Chapter 5 of The End of the State (Levine) (London: Verso, 1987).
Chapter 4 is a substantially revised version of "Giddens's Critique of Marx" (Wright), New Left Review 138 (1983), pp. 11-36. A somewhat different version entitled "Models of History's Trajectory" was published in David Held and John B. Thompson, eds, Anthony Giddens and His Critics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Chapter 6 is a slightly revised version of "Marxism and Methodological lndividualism" (Levine, Sober and Wright), New Left Review 162 (1987), pp. 67-84.
Chapters 7 and 8 appear here for the first time.
