(CHAPTER 22 Sociological Marxism MICHAEL Burawoy AND Erik OLIN WriGHT Diseussions of Marxism a8 socal theory typically adopt one of four basic stances signal the long overdue death of this antiquated and often pernicious d the comps, 3. Using Maratsm, Marxism is a Source of interesting and suggest “9“60 : MICHAEL BURAWOY avo ERIK OLIN WRIGHT Marrst pedigree of | “Marxism, these ideas are simply absorbed into the difuse mainstream SOCIOLOGICAL MARXISM 461 “Macxsm also can bea self-conscious practice of deploying these ideas in ways that afi the structure? Building Marxism as an intellectual project th With the politcal projec of challenging capitalism asa social order* Inthis chapter we primarily Marxism. We beg Marist theory of capi Marxism. SETTING THE STAGE: THE CENTRAL COMPONENTS OF MARXIST THEORY intimately linked this aspect of Mar dios whee40 MICHAEL BURAWOY axo ERIK OLIN WRIGHT the fist ofthese three clusters. The central achievement of Marx's work in political economy was an account ofthe “laws of motion” of capitalism and how these propelled capitalist production itself ‘Twentieth-century Western SOCIOLOGICAL MARXISM. 6 tutes the foundation of sociological Marxism, Finally we will discuss th problem of develop ing a thoory of Marxism’ emancipatory project ‘THE CLASSICAL MARXIST THEORY (OF THE TRAJECTORY AND DESTINY (OF CAPITALISM “Thetratinal Marxist thoory ofthe trajectory and destiny of capitalism was grounded in three fundamental theses