Materialist thought takes a different shape in each historical epoch

Evidence

We must be grateful to Ronald L. Meek for writing the prehistory of the concept of a “mode of production” (as that will later be worked out in the writings of Morgan and Marx), which in the eighteenth century took the form of what Meek calls the “four stages theory.” This theory came together in France and the Scottish Enlightenment, as the proposition that human cultures historically vary with their material or productive basis, which knows four essential transformations: hunting and gathering, pastoralism, agriculture, and commerce. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 861 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Materialist historiography alone resists the dehistoricizing of canonical texts — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1149; Materialist aesthetics rejects abstract theory for period-specific history; Human cultures historically vary with their material or productive basis — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 861

Broader Connections

• Materialist aesthetics rejects abstract theory for period-specific history #exemplifies (0.85)
• Human cultures historically vary with their material or productive basis #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 861