Marx reaffirmed economic determination was universal across all epochs including feudal and antique ones

Evidence

The politics, religion, philosophy, and art of any epoch in human history are, according to Marx, an outcome of its methods of production, and, to a lesser extent, of distribution. … The doctrine is called the ‘materialist conception of history’. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally; Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845; Capitalism’s form was determined by preexisting feudal civilization (+9 more)

Related

• Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture (similarity 0.87)
• Marx’s later development changed how production determines, not whether it does (similarity 0.85)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism (similarity 0.84)
• Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism (similarity 0.84)
• Historical specificity, not mere materialism, defines Marx’s theory of culture (similarity 0.83)
• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development (similarity 0.83)
• Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s concept of historical specificity deepened between German Ideology and Capital (similarity 0.81)
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical (similarity 0.80)
• Marx defined the economic structure as objective conditions independent of human will (similarity 0.80)
• Mature Marx employed structural rather than sequential causality (similarity 0.80)
• Marx rejected any universal concept of production outside history. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s mature thought held that economic determinacy persisted but was conceived differently (similarity 0.79)
• Marx treats culture as accumulated human mastery over nature, not mere description (similarity 0.79)
• Marx never reduced economic development to technical instruments alone (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture #corroborates (0.85) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845
• Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally #contradicts (0.80)
• Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism #qualifies (0.70)
• Capitalism’s form was determined by preexisting feudal civilization #expands (0.60)
• Marx defined the economic structure as objective conditions independent of human will #corroborates (0.60)
• Marx’s concept of historical specificity deepened between German Ideology and Capital #complicates (0.60)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism #complicates (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881
• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development #complicates (0.55)
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism #qualifies (0.50)
• The universal-proletariat claim persisted as non-empirical doctrine in Marxism #expands (0.50)
• Marxist theory requires holding both relative autonomy and economic determinacy at once #expands (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 371