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Marx's methods are seen as true or definitive science. It may be seen as the one that can achieve the real truth. It is complexity based on theories of systems. Marxism employs the method to ascend from the abstract to the concrete. Bottom-line does not include the concrete, it appears in the concrete. Reality may remain out of representation but it is concrete, real, and, an externality. The population is abstract and chaotic. The dialectic method used puts knowledge in totality. The movement is from determinations to concrete totality.
He does not create a world of concepts. It does not go without reality. It is a partial reaction to German idealism. It has a reference in Francis Bacon's ideas. He expresses categories as forms of being. Marx does not create linear cause-effect chains. He conceives a partially systemic system. His methodology conceptions are explained in his Grundrisse.