Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences: Evolution and revolutionWilliam M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman Taylor & Francis, 2003 - 320 pages |
Contents
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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