Abstract

Part 1 Setting the problem: Marxist reductionism and neo-realist epistemology - neo-realist epistemology and historical materialism, monism versus Pluralism Marxism versus post-Marxism - core Marxism - closed or open, the displacement of institutional analysis, the relative autonomy of the political, methodological Holism and authoritarianism. Part 2 The economic and the political - towards a non-reductive framework: technology, appropriation, ideology - beyond the base - superstructure dichotomy - historic materialism - from philosophical to historical analysis, substantive and methodological issues, technology, appropriation, ideology, the mode of domination concept application - sociopolitical transition in 19th and early 20th century Greece - Marxism and the sociology of development, Greek Marxist historiography and the dilemmas of class analysis, pre-capitalist Greece and the consolidation of oligarchic parliamentarianism, the demise of oligarchic parliamentarianism. Appendices: types of reductionism in Marxist theory ideology and class politics - a critique of Laclau.

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