Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences: Evolution and revolution

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William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman
Taylor & Francis, 2003 - 320 pages
 

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The materialist conception of nature
21
Contributions of Engels and Childe
35
The slave mode of production and The feudal mode
60
Historical tendency of capitalist accumulation
75
Extracts from The Communist Manifesto
105
Extract from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
129
History or technological determinism?
146
The reality of structural change
179
PART 4
205
Class society and the state
229
Alternative class theories
243
The economic base of the withering away of the state
259
Socialist Aspirations
274
Does social evolution offer hope for the future?
298
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