The superstructure exerts real effects despite being ultimately economically determined

Evidence

The fact that the appearance of the bourgeoisie on the historical stage in the seventeenth century took the ideological form of a clash between religious ideologies had—to use a current phrase—pertinent effects . The superstructure has its own effectivity, even if Marxism requires us to think it as determined by the economic “in the last instance.” 16 Ideologies are not self-sufficient; but in the Marxist theory of ideology, they are not empty and false forms, pure figments of the imagination, either. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the crux of the non-reductionist Marxist position on ideology’s relative autonomy.
• XREF: connects to: The 1987 crash’s real effects persisted beneath an outwardly limited economic surface — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 894; A society’s economic base determines its political and juridical superstructure. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1628