Both social democrats and orthodox Marxists were reductionist about culture

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363; Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism (+10 more)

Related

• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction (similarity 0.88)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (similarity 0.87)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.86)
• Anglo-Marxists neglected the state while fixating on ideology within the superstructures (similarity 0.86)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.84)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.83)
• Classical political economy of culture reduces all cultural phenomena to economic determination (similarity 0.81)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class (similarity 0.80)
• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.80)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.79)
• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses (similarity 0.79)
• The 1930s lacked a militant radical working-class culture despite socialist expectation (similarity 0.79)
• Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to industrial movements’ ideological nature. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s own theory anticipated its eventual negation as historical ideology (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #exemplifies (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism #exemplifies (0.85)
• The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics #exemplifies (0.85)
• The New Left treated culture as constitutive, not subordinate to economics #exemplifies (0.85)
• Marxism failed to comprehend nationalism, consciousness, racism, and Black history #exemplifies (0.85)
• Classical political economy of culture reduces all cultural phenomena to economic determination #exemplifies (0.85)
• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism #exemplifies (0.80)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #complicates (0.80)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture #exemplifies (0.80)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths #expands (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 114
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #contradicts (0.75)
• Weber built Protestantism and capitalism as one-sided ideal types against Marxist reductionism #responds-to (0.75)