Anglo-Marxists neglected the state while fixating on ideology within the superstructures

Evidence

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: Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to industrial movements’ ideological nature.; British labour lacked a hegemonic challenge to state power; Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms (+1 more)

Related

• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.89)
• Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to industrial movements’ ideological nature. (similarity 0.88)
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction (similarity 0.87)
• British labour lacked a hegemonic challenge to state power (similarity 0.86)
• Both social democrats and orthodox Marxists were reductionist about culture (similarity 0.86)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.85)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class (similarity 0.85)
• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.84)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.84)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (similarity 0.84)
• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses (similarity 0.83)
• Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to nationalist ideological dynamics (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s own theory anticipated its eventual negation as historical ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.82)
• The 1930s lacked a militant radical working-class culture despite socialist expectation (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #contradicts (0.50)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #qualifies (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363