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Article: Marxism, Human Nature, and Social Change.(Review)
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- December 1, 1999
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Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature (London: Routledge, 1998), 203 pp.
At a time when politicians, academics, and media pundits celebrate the demise of Marxism as a credible school of thought, and hegemonic "postisms" (e.g., poststructuralism, postfeminism, post-Marxism) have succeeded in producing a generation of young academics for whom everything (themselves included) is "socially constructed" and open to "deconstruction," in an endless game of shifting identities and "stories," a book a bout Marxism and human nature seems hopelessly outdated. It is, however, precisely at this time that this book should be welcome, not only because it is full of ...