Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism

Evidence

The search for and designation of the seminal figure should have been by this time recognized as a frequently misconceived and reductionist venture. This seems particularly the case when ideas and ideology are the subject of investigation. Whether codified in a didactic or scholastic literature or manifest in social collectives, the elements of consciousness and thought are generally shared by force of circumstance, social and historical continuity, language, culture, and interest. Individual achievement may be seen as the culmination of a collective momentum marked by extraordinary circumstance (imagination, location, etc.). As such it is likely it is being replicated or in the process of coming into being elsewhere, either simultaneously or otherwise. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2174 (#expands, via linked claim)

What I have tried to do in this paper is to document the emergence of a new theoretical paradigm, which takes its fundamental orientation from the problematic of Marx, but which seeks, by various theoretical means, to overcome certain of the limitations—economism, reductionism, “a priorism,” a lack of historical specificity—which have beset certain traditional appropriations of Marxism and which still disfigure the contributions to this field by otherwise distinguished writers, leaving Marxism vulnerable and exposed to effective criticism by many different variants of economistic monism and sociological pluralism. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 631 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms (similarity 0.85)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (similarity 0.85)
• Hunting for a single originator of an ideology is a reductionist mistake (similarity 0.82)
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism (similarity 0.82)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.82)
• Hall embraced Marxism selectively, rejecting economic reductionism for counterreductionist versions (similarity 0.81)
• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism (similarity 0.81)
• Marxism must hold determination in the last instance without falling into absolute autonomy (similarity 0.81)
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction (similarity 0.81)
• Both social democrats and orthodox Marxists were reductionist about culture (similarity 0.80)
• Post-Marxist theory emerged to correct Marxism’s economism and reductionism (similarity 0.80)
• Marxist theory requires holding both relative autonomy and economic determinacy at once (similarity 0.80)
• Marxist analysis needs both material grounding and historical specificity to avoid twin errors (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s method moves between successive levels of abstraction rather than abstracting once (similarity 0.80)
• Engels himself admitted that Marxism’s economic reductionism was partly his and Marx’s fault (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hunting for a single originator of an ideology is a reductionist mistake #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2174
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism #responds-to (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 631
• Absolutized Theory misreads Marx by omitting his movement between abstraction levels #corroborates (0.55)
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism #exemplifies (0.55)