Table of Contents

1 / Case Study: The Theory of Value.- 2 / The Method of Idealization and Concretization.- 3 / Idealization and Ideal-Typical Method: Marx and Weber.- 4 / Idealization and Positivism.- 5 / Idealization and Hypotheticism.- 6 / Idealization and ‘Methodological Irrationalism’.- 7 / Assumptions.- 8 / The Marxian Model of Scientific Activity (Model I).- 9 / Deduction and Modelling (Model II).- 10 / Approximation (Model III).- 11 / Semi-Idealization and Probability (Model IV).- 12 / Programming And Practical Sciences (Model V).- 13 / Scientific Community and Progress of Science.- 14 / The Social Context of Science.- 15 / The Social Reason for Making Science.- 16 / The Last Resort.- 17 / The Law of Absolute Pauperization.- 18 / The Contradiction Between the Third and the First Volume of Capital.- 19 / Marx’S Historicism.- 20 / The Contradictions and Ambiguities Within the Theory of Social Class.- References Cited.