ABSTRACT
EASTMAN rejects not only Marx’s theory of economic determinism. He also rejects the very conception of historical determinism. He imagines that he is thus rejecting Marxism, or the dialectic. He is grossly mistaken. He is rejecting a most important element in the intellectual progress of the past two centuries. The idea that history is subject to natural law did not originate with Marx, or even with Hegel. Let me cite some contemporaries of Marx, not one of whom can be charged with leanings toward communism.
