Totality: Decades of Debate and the Return of Nature.

The article explores debates about the concept of totality within the Western Marxist tradition. Topics discussed include complementary position of philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on nature, natural science and ecology, Western Marxism tradition's critique of positivism and emphasis on consciousness and culture, bourgeois consciousness rooted in the social division of labor, epistemological importance of political activism, and materialism rooted in the nature of capitalism.