Later Marx abandoned thinking society as one simple expressive totality.

Evidence

These are, of course, two of the principal sources for the Althusserean distinction between “determining” and “dominant” instances: and thus for the thesis that, in his later work, Marx ceased to think a social formation as a simple expressive totality. We will return to this important turn in the argument later. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 494

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the Frankfurt school material on Hegelian totality and to Althusser’s structural reading; directly serves the reader’s aim of understanding how Hall’s essays feed a critique of economic determinism.