Chapter II

CONCERNING HISTORICAL MATERIALISM VIEWED AS A SCIENCE OF
SOCIAL ECONOMICS

1. Relation between Professor Stammler's book on
historical materialism and Marxism: Distinction between
pure economics and general historical economics: Socialism
not dependent on abstract sociological theory: Stammler's
classification of the social sciences: His definition of
society: Of social economics: Of social teleology: Nature
of Stammler's social science does not provide abstract
sociology: Social economics must be either pure economics
applied to society or a form of history 25