Neither fundamentalism nor ‘new realism’: a critical realist perspective on current divisions in socialist theory

1 November 1990

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Capital & Class

Vol. 14 (3) , 30-54
https://doi.org/10.1177/030981689004200103

Abstract

The catch-phrase ‘realism’ remains ambiguous between ‘new realism’ and realism of a critical nature. Lovering urges the case for realism which is critical and addresses current schools of socialist thought in this light.

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