Critiques to Marx
• Marx was opposed by majority of early sociologists, the conservatives, especially in the US.
• It is because Marx’s ideology was radical.
• His idea of revolution was contrast to the functionalists’ conservative concern for reform and
orderly change.
• Marx’s Economic Determinism:
• Economic system determines all other sectors of society: politics, religion, idea systems, and
so forth.
• But this determinism contradicts with the dialectic method that emphasizes continual
feedback and mutual interaction among the various sectors of society