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The Political Economy of AIDS among Drug Users in the United States
Author(s) -
CARLSON ROBERT G.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1996.98.2.02a00040
Subject(s) - marxist philosophy , politics , capital (architecture) , sign (mathematics) , epitaph , political economy , political science , history , sociology , law , ancient history , mathematical analysis , mathematics
It came and went in the blink of an eye and what seemed like a brilliant future for Marxist Anthropology in the mid‐1970s now lies in a grave of dead‐ended approaches bearing the epitaph ‘Political Economy’—the sign which for Marx summed up all that was critically in error in capitalist and capitalizing analysis, hence his sub‐title to Capital , “A Critique of Political Economy.”