Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Would you please help me paraphrase this phrase?
I have met with a hard sentence in my reading:
Hunt attributed the interest to a general tendency in contemporary Marxist theory to return to Marx’s major theoretical texts and to ‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’.
I have worked out the meaning of the first half sentence, but the second half, the phrase in quotation marks,is too abstract and hard for me to understand. I have made every effort, but failded.
‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’
Would you please help me paraphrase this phrase?
Thank you very much in advance!
Hunt attributed the interest to a general tendency in contemporary Marxist theory to return to Marx’s major theoretical texts and to ‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’.
I have worked out the meaning of the first half sentence, but the second half, the phrase in quotation marks,is too abstract and hard for me to understand. I have made every effort, but failded.
‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’
Would you please help me paraphrase this phrase?
Thank you very much in advance!
Top answer
Critics have often criticised Marxism on grounds of its simplistic class reductions of the society. So there has been an tendency to avoid this criticism in contemporary Marxist theory by trying to return to Marx's major theoretical texts.
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Critics have often criticised Marxism on grounds of its simplistic class reductions of the society. So there has been an tendency to avoid this criticism in contemporary Marxist theory by trying to return to
Marx's major theoretical texts.
Marx's major theoretical texts.
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Hi,
I have met with a hard sentence in my reading:
Hunt attributed the interest to a general tendency in contemporary Marxist theory to return to Marx’s major theoretical texts and to ‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’.
I have worked out the meaning of the first half sentence, but
I have met with a hard sentence in my reading:
Hunt attributed the interest to a general tendency in contemporary Marxist theory to return to Marx’s major theoretical texts and to ‘avoid the accusations of simple economic and/or class reductions so frequently directed against Marxism by its critiques’.
I have worked out the meaning of the first half sentence, but
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