Marxism’s own base-superstructure formula caused its analytical weakness

Evidence

Raymond Williams has written: “[T]he reason for the … weakness in Marxism is not difficult to find: it lay in the received formula of base and superstructure, which in ordinary hands converted very quickly to an interpretation of superstructure a simple reflection, representation, ideological expression.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1693

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader critique of orthodox Marxist mechanism covered in the Frankfurt School reading.