Michael Hoover wrote: >the point is to change it... > >analytical marxists attempt to explain collective action in terms of "rational >calculations" of self-interested individuals rather than understanding that history >is shaped by social classes (collective entities in parlance of rational >choice/public choice/social choice/game theorists)... > >towards an "orthodox" marxism emphasizing importance of exploitation and class >struggle and dead-end (nay, silliness) of academic attempts to merge marxism with >methodological individualism associated with liberalism... michael hoover > Does one have to be a methodological individualist to believe that individuals do make choices, and that theories which assume that they act simply as classes (whether in their common class interest or as a result of some common false consciousness) are missing something? Understanding the reproduction and the change of social structures requires an understanding of how structure and individual interact.
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