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a Marxist perspective
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From a Marxist perspective, crime is largely the product of capitalism.
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No further testament is needed to illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of Marxist accounts of power and the state.
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Furthermore, as we have seen in the discussion of Marxist accounts , monocausal explanations do not provide particularly convincing arguments.
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Habermas sought to develop an argument which introduced the individual actors within the political system to a Marxist account of the state.
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It might be argued that it is. but it is worth dwelling briefly on the insights which structuralist Marxist accounts contain.
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He argues that Marxist accounts assume that the phenomenon occurs solely due to the needs of corporations and their owners.
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Let us look in more historical detail at how Marxist accounts deal with these changes.
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One approach, close to Marxist accounts , detects the dominance of big business and owners of capital.
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There are two closely connected points to make at this stage about these Marxist accounts .
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Locality studies can not, therefore, afford to insist on simplifying and monocausal assumptions such as those often made by Marxist analysis .
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Other commentators have drawn attention to the basic distinction between owners and managers, which is important for a strict Marxist analysis .
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But the most important element in Marxist analysis of centre-periphery relations is the concept of historical marginality.
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His was the first attempt to explain Stalinism as an aberration through the forms of Marxist analysis itself.
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Both found their analyses in a non-reflexive mode which presupposes the truth of a Marxist analysis of power.
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The notion of class consciousness is derived directly from Marxist analysis .
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On the face of it both movements shared a Marxist analysis .
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The further capitalism developed the more compelling the Marxist analysis became.
approach
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A Marxist approach which takes the role of ideology seriously needs to analyse punishment in terms such as these.
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Without doubt, a Marxist approach can be very illuminating when directed at particular cultural and intellectual phenomena.
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What strengths do the Marxist approaches contain, whether they be structuralist or instrumentalist?
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The memoirs and documentary editions published reflected a relatively wide range of Marxist approaches .
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The third element of the Marxist approach is a view of the state and revolution.
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In particular, the Interactionist and Marxist approaches .
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We begin by looking at one of the seminal theories of soccer spectator disorder, the Marxist approach of Ian Taylor.
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This is fine so far as it goes, but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go.
critic
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Even Marxist critics are generally dismissive.
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On such grounds it has been argued that the novel is not authentic communication, notably by the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin.
idea
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It forms an interesting contrast to both the contemporary communities of the Essenes and to current Marxist ideas .
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It was in these conditions that Marxist ideas began to gain currency.
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By the early nineties a significant proportion of young radicals had adopted Marxist ideas .
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The anarchist movement and its radicalism provided a crucial background for the introduction of Marxist ideas .
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Nevertheless, the events of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established a crucial background for the diffusion of Marxist ideas .
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He was never to become a party member, and was not conversant with Marxist ideas in 1922.
ideology
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The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement.
party
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Much of this was spontaneous, although a number of small syndicalist and Marxist parties were able to exert some influence.
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It must be consciously incorporated into the strategy of building revolutionary Marxist parties in colonial countries. 14.
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Their vision of the party pointed towards a loosely-organized entity open to the revisionism from which western Marxist parties were suffering.
perspective
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From a Marxist perspective , systems of stratification derive from the relationships of social groups to the means of production.
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Power and the superstructure From a Marxist perspective political power derives from economic power.
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From Lovell's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons.
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Gough, writing from a Marxist perspective , finds the de-industrialisation thesis wanting on two counts.
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In summary, the key to understanding society from a Marxist perspective involves an analysis of the infrastructure.
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We will discuss Marxist perspectives on the state in Chapter 7.
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Lenin was one of the first theorists who examined the international growth of capitalism from a Marxist perspective .
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Dependency and conflict From a Marxist perspective , the relationship between the major social classes is one of mutual dependence and conflict.
position
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This has some affinity with the Marxist position .
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The Leninist theory of capitalist expansionism is generally considered to be the orthodox Marxist position .
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However, the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation.
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The main difference between the radical and Marxist positions revolves around the issue of medical power.
theory
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Criticism of this approach to crime would, therefore, require a criticism of Marxist theory as a whole.
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It is, however, useful first to provide a general methodological and epistemological critique of Marxist theories in general.
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But this kind of Marxist theory should not be isolated.
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However Althusser found it difficult to maintain a Marxist theory of history while avoiding its customary Hegelian form.
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The following account represents a simplified version of Marxist theory .
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Contradiction and conflict Marxist theory begins with the simple observation that in order to survive, humans must produce food and material objects.
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What this means is that there is no way that any hypothesis drawn from Marxist theory can be disproved by empirical investigation.
thinker
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This reorientation of social thought, in new circumstances, has also influenced Marxist thinkers .
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These are quite explicit in the Communist Manifesto as well as many other writings of many Marxist thinkers .
thought
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The revitalization of critique was central in the re-emergence of significant variety in Marxist thought .
tradition
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But, above all, the moral and radical impulse which lay behind the Marxist tradition needs to be preserved.
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It is also true, however, that the Marxist tradition is responsible for some of the difficulties described above as well.
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The Marxist tradition emphasises the dominance of capital in the economy of western nations.
view
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From a Marxist view , a class is a social group whose members share the same relationship to the means of production.
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So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views .
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As Ramon comments, Marxist views are not approached as merely theoretical formulations but also as guidelines for action.
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Contrast this with a Marxist view of property rights.
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Westergaard and Resler put forward a conventional Marxist view of the ruling class.
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According to the Marxist view of bureaucracy, this is indeed the case in capitalist systems.
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Consequently the Marxist view is certain to re-emerge.
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For one thing, it proceeded from a peculiarly Marxist view of history as the conflict between capital and labour.
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Perhaps the main problem for these Marxist writers is the aristocracy of labour in the advanced industrial countries.
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A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie.
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Fifth, there is a mixture of theoretical and ideological objections from some Marxist writers .
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After all, one does not have to adopt a Marxist method in order to make statements about poverty, injustice or exploitation.
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In addition to this, the bureaucratic leaderships do not facilitate bringing revolutionary Marxist educational mate rial to the ranks.
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One such is provided in recent Marxist literature.
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Such an approach treads a thin line between the traditional pluralist and Marxist divide in media studies.
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The Leninist theory of capitalist expansionism is generally considered to be the orthodox Marxist position.
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This discussion is informed by Marxist efforts to explain articulating modes of production in terms of the changing requirements of capital accumulation.
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What strengths do the Marxist approaches contain, whether they be structuralist or instrumentalist?
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By contrast, some Marxists are more inclined to emphasize capitalism's economic success in generating proletarian support.
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Clearly, the perspectives offered by Marxists can not be rejected.
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Explaining how social and political cohesion is maintained despite capitalist crises is also critical for contemporary Marxists.
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In the 1980s the open conflict predicted by Marxists did result, but it did not end as they hoped.
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Intellectuals play a correspondingly enlarged role in Gramsci's Marxism, which perhaps accounts for its popularity amongst academic Marxists.
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Only a few Marxists raise fundamental doubt about Therborn's assumption above that in liberal democracy the exploiting minority rules through elections.
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Under feudalism, Marxists argue, the dominant mode of production was based on the ownership of land.