Rationality, Collective Action, and Karl Marx
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel R Sabia (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50 |
| Publication date | 1988-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111309 |
| OpenAlex | W2312684024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Karl Marx expected nineteenth-century workers to organize collectively and combat the evils of capitalism, eventually overthrowing the entire system. While history proves that this expectation was factually unwarranted, some collective action theorists have concluded that it was logically unjustified as well and that the theory on which it was based was logically inconsistent. In this article I examine Marx's position and contend that the charge of logical inconsistency is unfounded. Marx in fact suggests a number of interrelated arguments that justify, logically speaking, his expectation of revolutionary collective action and that serve at the same time to identify a set of empirical conditions under which revolutionary and similar social movements may well occur
Action (physics · Capitalism · Collective action · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Rationality · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |