ABSTRACT
While various predecessors have been identified, the birth of Analytical Marxism (AM) as a self-conscious school of thought dates back to the end of the 1970s, during the decline of structuralist Marxism, the renaissance of liberal egalitarianism, and the rebirth of interest in Marxism in analytical philosophy. In 1979, the most prominent members of AM start to meet, forming the core of the so-called "No-Bullshit Marxism September Group", or in short "September Group". One of the main tenets of AM, and its main departure from classical Marxism, is the denial of a specific Marxist methodology. Marxism should "subject itself to the conventional standards of social science and analytical philosophy". Many critics question the very role of formal models in the social sciences, and the relevance of the results drawn from them. According to some, mathematical models are inherently associated with bourgeois science and the politics.
