Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marx reaffirmed economic determination was universal across all epochs including feudal and antique ones; Sixteenth-century bourgeoisies were not lineal descendants of medieval ones; Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally (+8 more)

Related

• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail (similarity 0.87)
• Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally (similarity 0.86)
• Marx reaffirmed economic determination was universal across all epochs including feudal and antique ones (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s world-historical vision of the bourgeoisie contradicted its national-territorial development (similarity 0.83)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.82)
• Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to industrial movements’ ideological nature. (similarity 0.82)
• Marx saw historical development as contradictory rather than unilinear (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s own theory anticipated its eventual negation as historical ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.82)
• Marx disavowed reading Western European capitalist development as a universal path (similarity 0.81)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths (similarity 0.81)
• Marx explains capital better than class and class contradiction is not master key (similarity 0.81)
• Marx’s early theory concealed unresolved tensions between rival views of bourgeois society (similarity 0.80)
• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• Capital cannot yield all of Marxism without further theoretical development because capitalism constantly develops (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism #corroborates (0.55)
• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail #complicates (0.50) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847