Conjuncture names what is historically specific within each capitalist phase

Evidence

Marx’s “materialism” adds to this premise at least one other requirement: that the relationship must be thought within determinate historical conditions. It must be made historically specific . It is this second requirement which distinguishes a historical materialist theory of human society and culture from, say, a materialism grounded in the simple fact of man’s physical nature (a “vulgar,” or as Marx calls it, an undialectical materialism) or one which gives the determining instance to technological development alone. What Karl Korsch, among others, has called “the principle of historical specificity” in Marx’s materialism is clearly enunciated in The German Ideology (where Marx’s theory becomes, for the first time, fully “historical”) and afterward in his mature work. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility; Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881; Conjuncture is ephemeral circumstances while situation is structural (+1 more)

Related

• Conjuncture is ephemeral circumstances while situation is structural (similarity 0.86)
• Marx’s concept of historical specificity deepened between German Ideology and Capital (similarity 0.83)
• A conjuncture is a period fused by contradictions into crisis with no fixed outcome (similarity 0.82)
• Historical specificity, not mere materialism, defines Marx’s theory of culture (similarity 0.81)
• Mature Marx employed structural rather than sequential causality (similarity 0.81)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism (similarity 0.80)
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical (similarity 0.80)
• The conjunctural moment defines both the question and the cultural strategies appropriate to it (similarity 0.80)
• Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions (similarity 0.80)
• Marx treats culture as accumulated human mastery over nature, not mere description (similarity 0.79)
• Historical materialism requires no metaphysical-materialist foundation (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism’s phases share general laws but differ in what is conjuncturally specific. (similarity 0.78)
• The base determines only the tempo and limits, not the content, of the superstructures (similarity 0.78)
• A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism #expands (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881
• Conjuncture is ephemeral circumstances while situation is structural #expands (0.80)
• Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility #expands (0.78)
• Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions #expands (0.76)