ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses 19th-century conceptions of Marxism that theorised social democracy as a predictive and mechanical evolutionary step to socialism/communism. In the contemporary moment, the evolution appears not to be towards socialism/communism but neoliberalism and popular Far-Right nationalism. The book also discusses Antonio Gramsci's contribution to Marxism, and a focal point was the theory that everybody had the capacity for good sense, which created the possibility for social transformation. While the social democratic model has been transformed in contemporary Sweden as compared with its Golden Years, consent continues to prevail, which in turn is negating radical Left possibilities. The book provides a brief account of the productive nature of Critical Realism serving Marxism. The life history approach in this methodological and philosophical framework is effective to identify causally efficacious tendencies and generative mechanisms.
