"The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself."

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One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

— Claud Cockburn