Marx’s mature thought held that economic determinacy persisted but was conceived differently

Evidence

No simple or reductive reflexivity of the superstructures is assumed here, though the thrust behind the many reformulations is consistent, and unmistakable. And perhaps it is worth stressing that, if Marx’s thought on the subject subsequently developed, what changed is how he came to understand determinacy by a mode of production, not whether it determined or not. When we leave the terrain of “determinations,” we desert, not just this or that stage in Marx’s thought, but his whole problematic. It is also worth noting that, though the determinacy of “the economic” over the superstructures is the prevailing form in which this is expressed here, it is sometimes overlaid by a second template: the tendency to reduce determination, not to “the economic” but to History itself—to praxis: to an undifferentiated praxis which rolls throughout the whole social formation, as its essential ground. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 497

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that in Marx’s own development, what changed was the form of economic determinacy, not whether the economy determined.