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        Article Author: Maurice Dobb

        Marxism and the Social Sciences

        by Maurice Dobb
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        • Vol. 53, No. 04 (September 2001)

        September 1, 2001

        I should like to begin by saying something about the intellectual climate in which Marx's thought was reared; since a doctrine generally appears more clearly delineated when it is contrasted with other contemporary doctrines or with ideas in critique of which the doctrine was born

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