Marx derives superstructures from the phenomenal forms of exchange relations

Evidence

However, looking—to use the spatial metaphor again—“upward,” Marx then notes that it is these phenomenal relations which constitute the basis of civil society and the politico-juridical relations: that is, the superstructures. And from that level, also, arise the various forms of ideological consciousness. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 520

Categorization

• XREF: This grounds the civil society/superstructure chain that Gramsci and later cultural studies build on, in dialogue with the hegemony literature. — connects to: Sohn-Rethel sought to derive Kantian categories from the exchange-relation — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 326; Marxist categories still explain contemporary multinational and media capitalism — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 48; The form-content dialectic succeeds for Marx precisely because it is aesthetic in origin — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 671 (+2 more)