Theory and practice

It is practice which foments theory. Theory is a justification of practice. 

Marx avows this coalition of theory and practice as an inversion - speaking anachronistically as pragmatism was popularised in the early 20th Century.

Gouldner contends that the pathology of objectivism exists as a limited rationality is synonymous with Marxism. 

Habermas incorporates pragmatism as an appendage to truth-conditional theories of language, thus exposing the historicity of propositional content. He endorses democracy but seeks the Kantian liberation from heteronomy. 

Rorty argues for an equivalent outcome of democracy based on the ethnocentricity of tolerance.