ABSTRACT
In this interpretive scheme, which succumbs to modern intellectualist metaphysics, Marx’s theory of the historical path loses its concretisation programme and as a result desperately becomes a purely abstract and ossified historico-philosophical formula. The heart of the whole issue is to articulate Marx’s theory of the historical path and to identify its basic nature in relation to the foundation and essence of historical materialism. The core of Marx’s theory of history is to grasp the essentiality of human history in its entirety as the structural transformation of the mode of production, that is, as the evolutionary process of the basic structure of society whose axes are the productive forces and the relations of production. In contrast to this, the third view tries not to limit the scope of history but to make formal laws themselves more broadly applicable to the empirical content of world history as a whole by adjusting their extension.
