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 ...

Sohn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour argues that the “real abstraction” of commodity exchange makes possible “ideal abstraction” in cognition. In a radical version of the Marxist ...