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Can we really say (as has Michael Burawoy) that ‘two anomalies confront Marxism as its refutation: the durability of capitalism and the passivity of its working class?’ 2 That is, can we say that these were ‘anomalies’ for Marx?
The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-change can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice.
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Marx, ‘Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke, and Others’, September 17–18, 1879, in Tucker, op. cit., pp. 553–5.
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Lebowitz, M.A. (1992). Beyond Political Economy. In: Beyond Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21831-8_8
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