Reading Capital catalyzed the theoretical revolution in Marxist social science.
Evidence
The emergent theoretical position is grounded by its proponents in a certain “rereading” of the classical Marxist literature. It is part of that immense theoretical revolution constituted by the sophisticated return to the “reading” of Marx’s Capital which has had such a formative intellectual impact over the past decade. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 610
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Directly names the rereading of Capital — Althusser’s ‘Reading Capital’ project — central to Hall’s intellectual formation.
Related
- Treating Capital as a complete theory contradicts Marx’s own premise of continuous development. (similarity 0.79)
- Marx concluded capitalism was the only mode of production he could adequately theorize. (similarity 0.79)
- Capital is neither a pure theory nor a national history but something else. (similarity 0.79)
- Althusser read mature Marx as employing structural not sequential causality (similarity 0.78)