I’m not an academic, so my understanding of the details of Marxist theory are shaky. Still, I wonder if the concepts of base and superstructure might be useful in making the case for the priority I ...

“One basis for life and another basis for science is an a-priori lie” — Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1845. Base-superstructure theory is Marx’s most general theory, but is long ...

BASE and superstructure refer to the reciprocal relationship and interaction between the ever-changing ways that humans collectively get their living (“the forces and relations of production”) and the ...

When it comes to figuring out the most influential socio-political theorists, Gramsci undoubtedly is one of them “Today, no Marxist thinker, after the classical epoch, is so universally respected in ...

Even more remarkably many of them were bankers, one-time Ayn Randian masters of the universe now bleating that finance was a social product, capitalism a historically bound system, and the first would ...

It is not surprising that the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, May 5, has gone past without much ado. (Wikipedia) It is not surprising that the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, May 5, has gone past ...