This paper critically examines the work of three prominent theorists (Aglietta, Mandel and Gordon) in an attempt to suggest a synthetic conceptual framework that analytically combines the stages and long-cycles of capitalist development on the basis of the fundamental historical materialist principle that social change originates from the contradiction between the forces and relations of production.
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