Material conditions are necessary but not sufficient for all historical practice.

Evidence

We can’t be materialists in that way any longer. But I do think that we are still required to think about the way in which ideological/cultural/discursive practices continue to exist within the determining lines of force of material relations, and the expropriation of nature, which is a very different question. Material conditions are the necessary but not sufficient condition of all historical practice. Of course, we need to think material conditions in their determinate discursive form, not as a fixed absolute. I think the discursive position is often in danger of losing its reference to material practice and historical conditions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates his middle position that pure culturalism and crude materialism both err — exactly the theoretical stance the reader needs to anchor his essays.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747
• XREF: connects to: Material conditions condition but never fully determine historical practice.; Education and abstract values are unattainable without the material conditions that make them possible — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic level is necessary but not sufficient for explaining other levels #corroborates (0.80)
• Marxist analysis needs both material grounding and historical specificity to avoid twin errors #expands (0.70)
• Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions #expands (0.65)
• Material conditions explain the Revolution better than its iconography #exemplifies (0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 716