Society’s economic relations form a differentiated unity rather than an identical subject

Evidence

“To regard society as one single subject is … to look at it wrongly; speculatively.” “The conclusion we reach is not that production, distribution, exchange and consumption are identical, but that they all form the members of a totality of distinctions within a unity” (Marx 1973). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 619

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to reading Hall as economic thought: this is Marx denying the collapse of political economy into a single ‘production’ category.