Marxist theorists disagreed over dating ideology shifts but shared base-superstructure premises

Evidence

Grossmann’s quarrel with Borkenau in his Zeitschrifi’ article on Borkenau’s book was over the timing of the transition from the feudal to the bourgeois ideology - he put it one hundred fifty years before Borkenau — and the importance of technology in effecting the change — Leonardo rather than Descartes was his paradigmatic figure. Nonetheless, Grossmann never questioned the fundamental causal relationship between substructure and superstructure. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 130

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxist ideology carries a negative judgment and must be analyzed as superstructure; Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335; The base-superstructure formula weakened Marxism by reducing ideas to mere reflections — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1693 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Marxist ideology carries a negative judgment and must be analyzed as superstructure #expands (0.85)
• The base-superstructure formula weakened Marxism by reducing ideas to mere reflections #contradicts (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1693
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #expands (0.78)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #complicates (0.78)
• Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335