![]() “In Marx’s Wager, Thomas Kemple explores the dense and thorny bramble where the classic sociological tradition wrestled with Marx’s critique of political economy even as it tried to escape from his socialist conclusions. ![]() von Goethe’s tragic epic of modernity, insofar as Marx and the classical sociologists hope to translate theory into practice while making a pact or wager with the diabolical social, political, and economic forces of the modern world. This commitment can be called ‘Faustian’, after the title character of the poet J. Despite their differences with Marx and with one another, they share his concern with how empirically detailed and scientifically valid knowledge of the social world may inform historical struggles for a more human world. ![]() Although these and other classical sociologists did not have access to most of Marx’s published and unpublished works as we do today, each is concerned with revising and refining Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy. ![]() ![]() Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel attempt to supplement what they call ‘historical materialism’ or to engage in debates about ‘socialism’ through their readings of The Communist Manifesto and occasional Capital. Marx's masterpiece Capital ( Das Kapital) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him. ![]()
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