The intention of Marxism is to provide a theoretical foundation for interpreting the world in order to change it. It means that Marxism seeks a particular kind of knowledge, one which is uniquely capable of illuminating the principles of historical movement and, at least implicitly, the points at which political action can most effectively intervene. This is not to say that the object of Marxist theory is to discover a ‘scientific’ programme or technique of political action. Rather, the purpose is to provide a mode of analysis especially well equipped to explore the terrain on which political action must take place. -ellen meiksins wood (New left Review: Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism) One crucial way in which Marxism differentiates itself from bourgeois theories of society is in its commitment to [philosophical] materialism, or, to be more precise, its commitment to theory grounded in the embodied human practices through which socio-material life is produced and reproduced. To be a Marxist is to delve into the realm of the concrete, historically-constructed relationships of people and things, and to hold up the patterns, rules, and contradictions discovered in that realm as critical explanations of the social. -(Susan Ferguson, David McNally. Capital, Labor Power, and Gender Relations: Introduction to the Historical Materialism edition of marxism and the Oppression of Women. Brill Acedemic Publishing:2013)
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