Economic forces decide history but traditions and politics also act

Evidence

We make our history ourselves, but, in the first place, under very definite assumptions and conditions. Among these the economic ones are ultimately decisive. But the political ones, etc., and indeed even the traditions which haunt human minds also play a part, although not the decisive one. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 274

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stressing objective economic forces over revolutionary praxis yields quietistic politics — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 131; Social and political forces drive the speculative imagination’s history and swings. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 260; A society’s economic base determines its political and juridical superstructure. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1628