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Marx view of history
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Holistic, historical, and materialistic. Based on mode of production
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Marx view of reality
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Reality is the objective of science
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Marx view of theory
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Theory and practice combined in thought and action
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Marx view social science knowledge
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Liberated from ideology, social scientific knowledge exposes exploitation of one class over another
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Marx view of politics
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Social scientist is poltical and should mix investigation with political activity
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Marx view of values
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Values mixed with values and facts. Values have material bases.
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Marx view of laws
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History predicated on common laws related to differing modes of producation, productive forces, and relations of production and economic development
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Marx view of capitalism
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Promotes exploitation of worker, resulting in alienation. Capitalism is wasteful, inefficient, and irrational.
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Marx view of dialectic
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Contradictions of capitalism bring about its demise
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Marx view of society
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Ultimately socialt, then communist, as means of production pass from private control to public control anto hands of workers' committee for managing affairs of bourgeoisie
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Marx view of state
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Disappears with emergence of classless society
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Marx view of action
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Reflection of objective material conditions determined by prouction of individuals
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Marx view of industrial freedom
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Possible under socialism, butlimited under capitalism where choices are determined by class position. Freedom with elimination of alienation.
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Marx view of heuristic device (construct or categories)
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Mode of production as material basis of society
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Marx view of method
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Dialectic
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