Economic structure constrains but does not determine political and ideological levels.

Evidence

The economic level is the necessary but not sufficient condition for explaining the operations at other levels of the society (the premise of non-reductionism). We cannot assume an express relation of “necessary correspondence” between them (the premise of historical specificity). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the non-reductionist and historical-specificity premises that define the articulation problematic in contrast to crude economism.
• XREF: Connects to base-superstructure debates in Marxist theory and to the earlier ‘Grafting & Growth’ pattern of necessary-but-not-sufficient conditions. — connects to: Subjection is overdetermined, neither purely political nor purely economic. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1712