Politics and Judgment
A Critique of Rational Choice Marxism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Eric Bronner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-264 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500050361 |
| OpenAlex | W1992755141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article is an attempt to confront the assumptions underpinning rational choice Marxism along with its implications for politics and social theory. That initially calls for setting the new tendency within the Marxian tradition in order to see whether its proponents can deal with the issues deriving from the collapse of the old teleological vision. In this way, the subsequent epistemological critique will be undertaken within a theoretical and practical context. From this critique, it will become apparent that rational choice builds on the utilitarian assumptions of what Marx termed “vulgar materialism” and simply ignores the role of philosophical idealism entirely
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Economics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Idealism · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rational choice theory (criminology · Sociology · Teleology · Underpinning · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
History and Class Consciousness
Sour Grapes
The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
The Positivist dispute in German sociology
Sour Grapes
Social Choice and Individual Values
Marx and Methodological Individualism
Utilitarianism and Beyond
Rational Choice Marxism
The Critical Theory of Society
Reason and Revolution. Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory.
Marxism and Methodological Individualism
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory
Marxism--Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie
The Jargon of Authenticity
Scarcity and Modernity
Karl Marx's Theory of History
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Marx and Methodological Individualism
From Rousseau to Lenin
Social Choice and Individual Values
On Democracy
Reason and revolution
The Making of Marx's Capital Volume 2
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Marxism and Rational Choice
New Directions in the Marxian Theory of Exploitation and Class
Proletariat into a Class
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2015 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |