The economy can never act detached from political and ideological practices.

Evidence

Some of Althusser’s most effective polemical passages are indeed reserved for taking the base/superstructure metaphor literally : and thus showing the absurdity of waiting for a historical moment when the determining level—His Majesty, the Economy—could detach itself from its more incidental and epiphenomenal superstructural forms, and exert its “determination” over a social formation on its own! Neither in time nor history can “determination in the last instance by the economic” be so read as to suggest that the level of economic practice could stand free and appear denuded of political and ideological practices. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 532 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• The economy can never act independently of political and ideological practices. (similarity 0.95)
• The economy never operates free of political and ideological practices (similarity 0.83)
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (similarity 0.83)
• Political and intellectual action is the true expression of economic necessity (similarity 0.83)
• Economic structure constrains but does not determine political and ideological levels. (similarity 0.82)
• The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. (similarity 0.82)
• Economic determinacy operates through overdetermination, not simple mechanical causation (similarity 0.81)
• Marxist theory requires holding both relative autonomy and economic determinacy at once (similarity 0.80)
• The superstructure exerts real effects despite being ultimately economically determined (similarity 0.79)
• Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism (similarity 0.79)
• Economism must be fought politically through the concept of hegemony. (similarity 0.79)
• Classical political economy of culture reduces all cultural phenomena to economic determination (similarity 0.79)
• Not every ideological shift directly mirrors the economic base. (similarity 0.79)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (similarity 0.79)
• Democratic politics cannot reform an economy structured to accumulate and break down barriers violently. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The economy never operates free of political and ideological practices #corroborates (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 532