A Japanese Contribution to the Critique of Rational Choice Marxism.
From: Social Theory and Practice
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Date: 9/22/1999
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Author: Westra, Richard
Introduction
Rational Choice Marxism (RCM)(1) has staked out what appears to be an innovative research territory in a field of recent reconstitutive endeavors in Marxist theory. Engaging neoclassical economics with its attendant "tool-box," and committed to what are supposed to be widely accepted ("bourgeois") norms of scientific inquiry, RCM is bent on radically updating Marxism for late twentieth-century academic consumption.(2) Precisely because of the means it deploys in its ...
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