Abstract This introduction presents the symposium on Sam Knafo and Benno Teschke’s article in Historical Materialism , ‘Political Marxism Rules of Reproduction Capitalism: A Historicist Critique’ (2021). It briefly summarises foundations Political Marxism, discusses broader implications debate raised by Teschke for questions collective knowledge-production methods Marxist historiography, outlin...

W. V. Quine famously argues that though all knowledge is empirical, mathematics is entrenched relative to physics and the special sciences. Further, entrenchment accounts for the necessity of mathematics relative to these other disciplines. Michael Friedman challenges Quine’s view by appealing to historicism, the thesis that the nature of science is illuminated by taking into account its histor...

Abstract Knafo and Teschke’s provocative essay ‘Political Marxism the Rules of Reproduction Capitalism’ has prompted considerable debate. From a position critical support, present article intervenes in this debate by making three interrelated points. First, structuralist–historicist divide that Teschke identify is misleading should be reformulated. Though duality real, best understood as contin...