Gramsci centers the base-superstructure passage as the root of nonreductionist analysis

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This is what he meant by saying that the relationship between “structure” and “superstructures,” or the “passage” of any organic historical movement right through the whole social formation, from economic “base” to the sphere of ethico-political relations, was at the heart of any nonreductionist or economistic type of analysis. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 98

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• XREF: Directly sets up Gramsci’s concept of hegemony (developed later in this essay and in Hall’s toolkit) as the mechanism by which the economic base ‘passes through’ ethico-political relations. — connects to: Reflection theory is a shorthand signaling base-superstructure mediation, not a literal doctrine — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 382