Marx’s 1857 Introduction supports viewing social formation as an articulated hierarchy.

Evidence

More pertinent, perhaps, is the warrant which Althusser and others have found, in Marx’s most extensive “methodological” text—his “1857 Introduction” to the Grundrisse —for a theory of the social formation as what Marx himself calls an “articulated hierarchy” (Gliederung )—or, as Althusser translates him, “an organic hierarchized whole.” … The conclusion we reach is not that production, distribution, exchange and consumption are identical, but that they all form the members of a totality of distinctions within a unity” (Marx 1973). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 619

Categorization

• XREF: Gives the reader the actual Marx text (Grundrisse ‘1857 Introduction’) underpinning non-reductionist economic thought — a primary source for the economics lens the reader wants.
• DEFINE: Defines ‘articulated hierarchy’ (Gliederung) via Marx’s own words and Althusser’s translation.