Social structures persist for centuries and resist melting into productive relations.

Evidence

[T]he question arises whether the economic interpretation of history is more than a convenient approximation which must be expected to work less satisfactorily in some cases than it does in others. An obvious qualification occurs at the outset. Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behaviour more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process… . Such facts Marx did not overlook but he hardly realized all their implications. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 290

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The ‘coins that do not readily melt’ reasoning is foundational to Robinson’s whole thesis that race and prior cultural formations survive within capitalism — a paradigm-shifting point stated with unusual economy.
• XREF: Directly anticipates and undergirds Robinson’s argument for why the Black radical tradition persists within capitalist modernity. — connects to: Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time; Traditional societies and structures can collapse under external pressures; Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 290

Broader Connections

• Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time #contradicts (0.85)
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778
• Traditional societies and structures can collapse under external pressures #qualifies (0.70)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #exemplifies (0.40)