Wittgenstein, Marx, and Marxism: Some Historical Connections

Some more Marx Concept examples:

Democracy: Marx’s theory of history (ex. Organization of the mode of production determines superstructure; unequal distribution of labor) explains the lack of actual democracy in capitalist societies; however, Marx’s thought concerning progression (also a theory of history) states that capitalist societies would eventually progress to a democratic state after a revolution of the proletariat. Ma...

Foucault and Marxism: rewriting the theory of historical materialism

This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault’s own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and intellectual formations as linked to social relations an...

Marx and Mackinnon: The Promise and Perils of Marxism for Feminist Legal Theory

Catherine MacKinnon, perhaps the dominant voice of North American feminist legal theory over the last two decades, developed her feminist theory of law through an extended metaphor with Marxism. Marxist thought thus became thoroughly intertwined with MacKinnon’s particular brand of radical feminism in the minds of many feminist legal scholars and activists. As MacKinnon’s work has fallen out of...

Vector Bundles and Connections in Physics and Mathematics: Some Historical Remarks

To Seshadri, for his seventieth birthday 1. Introduction. I have known Seshadri for many years. I still remember the first time when I came across his name in a Séminaire Chevalley volume on Variétés de Picard. I was at the Indian Statistical Institute at that time and was browsing in the library one day when I noticed that a certain Conjeevaram S. Seshadri had given a series of talks in that s...

Marxism and Method