Serious attention to ideology in its own terms strengthens rather than weakens Marxism.

Evidence

It could even be argued that it was Hill’s decision to treat the religious, ideological, and intellectual dimensions of the “English Revolution” seriously in their own terms—and not simply as a simple reflection of economic forces—which saved his work from its earlier tendency to economic reductionism: saved it, that is, not from but for Marxism. (Marxism is not an economic reductionism, although in the period of the Second International Weber could be forgiven for sometimes thinking that it was.) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis (similarity 0.94)
• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism (similarity 0.89)
• Formalist criticism and Marxism are compatible, not opposed (similarity 0.85)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-disciplinary critique of Marxism applies equally to socialist feminism (similarity 0.82)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (similarity 0.81)
• Hunting for a single originator of an ideology is a reductionist mistake (similarity 0.81)
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (similarity 0.81)
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism (similarity 0.80)
• Marxist theory requires holding both relative autonomy and economic determinacy at once (similarity 0.80)
• Engels himself admitted that Marxism’s economic reductionism was partly his and Marx’s fault (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. (similarity 0.80)
• Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism (similarity 0.80)
• The superstructure exerts real effects despite being ultimately economically determined (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology-focused readings of Marx long obscured his theory of the state (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #corroborates (0.85)
• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism #exemplifies (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335