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Base and superstructure

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Carl Beijer
Jun 08, 2015
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Quick response to a Twitter conversation, because there’s no way this is going to be readable in a series of tweets.

One of Marxism’s distinctive ideas is its insistence that there is a causal relationship between material conditions (often called the base) and all kinds of non-material phenomenon like ideas, ideology, etc. (often called the superstructu…

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