While the" Western Marxism" experienced its vigorous period and gradually head for the depressed time, the " Analysis Marxism "quietly rose in England and continuously received much attention from many Marxist researcher. Now, the Analytical Marxism represent the new direction of west Marxist" at the fourth stage. But Marcus, a new Marxist in England, thinks that the Analytical Marxism is tired on methodological individualism and functional explain, so exactly caused Cohen's defence of technological determinism to be a failure. And then, Marcus brings up the thought of own technological value- the development of technology is "transhistorical". This paper gives a critique to Marcus' though of technological value and mentalism from the point of view of Marxist and the representative of Western Marxist.
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