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 ...

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 ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite East European countries and the establishment of state capitalism in China and Vietnam in the name of socialism, it has been widely assumed that ...