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**Coededgeme** · 07-07-2008, 11:53 PM

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It is not the Marxian theory of society. It is the theory of Giambattista Vico, and it predates Marx by about 100 years. It was the view of classical political economy, and while there are other models out there, they simply don't have the explanatory power of that model. Marx certainly describes history as one of class struggles (I think it is even in the manifesto where he says so). If he has it from the other guy fine but it's a core part of his thinking.

As for "explanatory power" well the core prob is that the practical development of modern (capitalist) societies went differently.

07-07-2008, 11:53 PM	#20
Coededgeme Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 334 Senior Member	Originally posted by chegitz guevara It is not the Marxian theory of society. It is the theory of Giambattista Vico, and it predates Marx by about 100 years. It was the view of classical political economy, and while there are other models out there, they simply don't have the explanatory power of that model. Marx certainly describes history as one of class struggles (I think it is even in the manifesto where he says so). If he has it from the other guy fine but it's a core part of his thinking. As for "explanatory power" well the core prob is that the practical development of modern (capitalist) societies went differently.
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