>>15969Distributive justice is rebranded social democracy. His criticisms of dialectical materialism was retarded, but I can't expect much from analytic Philosophy on stuff like that.
His book "Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence" I read a while ago and remember quite enjoyed it, outside of some of my disagreements with him, It was a good defense of the primacy of the productive forces and some of the original theories of the second international. I remember the book being referenced in a paper I read by a Vietnamese Marxist.
Rational choice Marxism/analytic Marxism developed into social democracy as time went on. Sad too because there's was a lot of radical beginnings within the tendency. I can't give you much on his problems with Rawls, however if I remember correctly I'm pretty sure he criticized Rawls while still taking influence from him for some of his conceptions of morality, just from a much more critical view point.