A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism

Evidence

I think, however, that Marx is wrong in two respects. First, the social circumstances of which account must be taken are quite as much political as economic; they have to do with power, of which wealth is only one form. Second, social causation largely ceases to apply as soon as a problem becomes detailed and technical. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The dismissal of culture, that is, a transmitted historical consciousness, as an aspect of class consciousness, did not equip the Marxian movement for the political forces that would not only erupt in Europe and the Third World but within the movement itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms; The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism; The core problem is reconciling economic determination with superstructural autonomy (+23 more)

Related

• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction (similarity 0.90)
• Both social democrats and orthodox Marxists were reductionist about culture (similarity 0.87)
• Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism (similarity 0.87)
• Classical political economy of culture reduces all cultural phenomena to economic determination (similarity 0.86)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms (similarity 0.86)
• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail (similarity 0.85)
• Anglo-Marxists neglected the state while fixating on ideology within the superstructures (similarity 0.84)
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism (similarity 0.84)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.83)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.83)
• Engels himself admitted that Marxism’s economic reductionism was partly his and Marx’s fault (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.82)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.82)
• Marx explains capital better than class and class contradiction is not master key (similarity 0.81)
• Serious attention to ideology in its own terms strengthens rather than weakens Marxism. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #expands (0.70)
• Marx overemphasized economics while neglecting power and technical detail #corroborates (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #qualifies (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363