Marx explains capital better than class and class contradiction is not master key

Evidence

I think, however, that Marx is wrong in two respects. First, the social circumstances of which account must be taken are quite as much political as economic; they have to do with power, of which wealth is only one form. Second, social causation largely ceases to apply as soon as a problem becomes detailed and technical. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847; When everything is capital, labor and class become illegible categories — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 64; Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 298 (+2 more)

Related

• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail (similarity 0.86)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (similarity 0.81)
• Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. (similarity 0.81)
• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development (similarity 0.81)
• Sharpened contradictions historically favor capital and the Right, not the Left. (similarity 0.80)
• Marx concluded capitalism was the only mode of production he could adequately theorize. (similarity 0.80)
• Weber’s economic side lets class conflict be one case among many (similarity 0.79)
• Marx explained modes of production evolving and dissolving through their own contradictions. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx broke with political economy by abstracting structures apart from individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Classical political economy of culture reduces all cultural phenomena to economic determination (similarity 0.78)
• Neoclassical economics replaced class analysis with individualistic merit narratives (similarity 0.78)
• Hobbes derives the fundamental desire for power from self-interested economic calculation (similarity 0.78)
• Treating Capital as a complete theory contradicts Marx’s own premise of continuous development. (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism is a symptom of something deeper and unnameable in Western civilization (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail #expands (0.85) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847