Re: Lisa's Anthro, Engels' OFPPS: econ base, 'group marriage'

[Adam Rose <adam@xxxxxxxx>]

I've not been following the thread, so I can't comment on the context.

Carrol Cox writes:
>     In traditional Marxian terminology, Lisa is confusing the forces
> of production with the relations of production. It is the latter, not
> the former, which  constitute the "economic base."


No it isn't.

The forces + relations of production together form the base, while
eveything else is superstructure.

This is very easy to state but difficult to apply - are ideas
forces of production, relations of production, or superstructure ?
The state ? the familly ? ( At different times and places some or all
of the above have been in all three categories, I think ).

>
>     Just *how* forces of production constrain, determine, influence, what-
> ever, the econmic base is one of the dark and bloody grounds of 20th
> century Marxism.

Indeed.


Adam.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK





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