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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (60382)12/8/2002 2:59:44 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
One can also read Marx as putting his money on some sort of inevitable movement of history. Since Harris picked the latter view rather than the former, he owed us, however quickly, a sentence or two as to why.

Anyone who reads Marx as NOT asserting the inevitability of history has divorced Marx from the philosophical context of his times. Marx simply espoused for history what was popular at the time - Evolutionary theory. Social Evolutionary theory was very big. The idea that civilizations go through stages of development which can be inferred and applied to the study of society was all the rage. Marx's real breakthrough in this regard was applying the Dialectic to the scheme as an attempt to explain social change.

Derek
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