Analytical Marxism, a.k.a. "No Bullshit" Marxism

Last update: 13 Feb 2026 09:56
First version: 24 November 2021

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Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder (especially for a school of thought which influenced me very deeply)

See also:
• Historical Materialism
• Marxism
• Methodology for the Social Sciences

Recommended, examples:
• G. A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defense
• Jon Elster
  • Making Sense of Marx
  • An Introduction to Karl Marx
  • "Marxism, Functionalism and Game Theory: The Case for Methodological Individualism," Theory and Society 11 (1982): 453--482 [JSTOR]
• John Roemer
  • A General Theory of Exploitation and Class
  • Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy
• Erik Olin Wright
  • How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
  • Understanding Class

To read:
• Alan Carling
  • "Analytical Marxism and Historical Materialism: The Debate on Social Evolution", Science and Society 57 (1993): 31--65 [JSTOR]
  • Social Division
• G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism? [though see chapter 1 of Joseph Heath's Cooperation and Social Justice...]
• Adam Przeworski, Capitalism and Social Democracy
• Marcus Roberts, Analytical Marxism: A Critique
• John Roemer, Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work
• Erik Olin Wright
  • Class Counts
  • Real Utopias
• Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine and Elliott Sober, Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History