ABSTRACT
Here we will be dealing with the tendency for theorists to give rather Weberian answers to a Marxist question.
This much seems indisputable about Marx’s views: societies do not persist for ever; they are often transformed into very different kinds of societies, and features leading to such transformations are present in the society as preconditions for its transformation. While essential doctrines for Marxism, these beliefs are not specially distinctive, much less so than the altogether more controversial assumptions that structural transformations involve total transformation in the society’s structure, that such transformations must be a result of irreconcilable conflicts within the structure of the existing society, and that some definite social class must be the key vehicle for these transformations. In total, these latter assumptions generate, with respect to capitalism, yet another assumption: the natural course of capitalist development will result in a working-class revolution.
