Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country''s leading authority on dialectics and Marx''s method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America''s Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx''s use of dialectical method.
Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx''s theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker.
In putting Marx''s philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a vers
