Critique of the Critique: Analysis of Hodgson on Marx on Evolution

Sherman, Howard J.

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“…Veblen opposed dualism and as a result was against reductionism, which said that the processes of social change and transformation could be reduced to economics. Marx opposed reductionism in a similar way but with different expressions and concepts and explained social transformation by the interaction of material and ideas (Sherman, 1998 andHunt, 1979). Thus both thinkers converged on a materialist basis.…”

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“…Marx always perceived teleological causation as the deliberate action of a person, not as an inevitable development of history (Hunt, 1979: 115) In brief, while Marx's theories accept the existence of an individual teleology he does not accept that history operates towards a pre-determined goal. Veblen, Marx, and Marxists reject the notion of pre-determined history and state that men have always made their own history under specific conditions (Sherman, 1998). "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."…”

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What if Marx and Veblen met…

Takay¹,

Aydın

2014

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The aim of this study is to analyse both the differences and the similarities between Marx and Veblen regarding historical specificity, evolution, and alienation. Starting with their discussions on these subjects, this article builds on the analyses of capitalism. The goal of this study is not to collapse Marx and Veblen into one another but rather to understand capitalism by presenting the complementary relationship of the two economists? analyses and to introduce an appropriate analytical framework for understanding capitalism. This study consists of three parts. The first part examines how Veblen regarded Marx?s analysis, and how Marx especially viewed Darwin?s theory of evolution. Marx?s approach to evolution and Veblen?s criticism of Marx on this topic will constitute the general framework of this part. The second part of the study evaluates the level of agreement or disagreement between Veblen and Marx on the idea of historicism from the perspective of dialectical materialism. The last part analyses Marx and Veblen?s different ideas of the concept of alienation. The two economists? views on the capitalist system will be determined based on these three concepts, introducing the similarities between them as well as the differences.

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The Objectivity of Value versus the Idea of Habitual Action

Campbell¹

2004

The Constitution of Capital

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The Mind of the Social Individual: A Comment on Sherman and Hodgson

Fuller¹

2001

Review of Social Economy

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In the Spring 1998 (56(1): 47-57) and Fall 1998 (56(3): 295-306, 307-310) issues of this review, Howard Sherman and Geoffrey Hodgson debated, inter alia , the extent to which Veblen-Ayres institutionalism is compatible with Marx and recent Marxist work. This paper argues that the differences between Hodgson and Sherman"s positions do not rely on assumptions of "illogical" behavior, individualist arguments or structural conceptions of the individual. Instead, the debate turns on the authors' respective conceptions of the formation and role of the human mind in what it is to be a social individual.Marxism, Veblen, Habits, Rationality, Class, Institutions,

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Critique of the Critique: Analysis of Hodgson on Marx on Evolution

Abstract: Hodgson claims that Marxism is incompatible with Darwinian biological evolution. That was true of earlier Socialist and Communist theories of economic determinism, but it is not true of the contemporary generation of critical Marxists.Marxism, institutionalism, evolution,

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What if Marx and Veblen met…

What if Marx and Veblen met…

The Objectivity of Value versus the Idea of Habitual Action

The Mind of the Social Individual: A Comment on Sherman and Hodgson

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