[Marxism] Appropos

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Pace

Well - Marxism itself is at least in part a theory of social construction
(or at the very least, Western Marxism as developed in the 20th century most
certainly incorporates that). But I'd like to know if you think those
post-structuralist and post-modernist theories (and their
derivatives/relatives) are compatible with Marxism?

Solidarity,
Ian

^^^^^^^

CB: Ian didn't ask me ,but I am wondering if a rational kernel in
structuralism, post-s , and post-modernism might be:

Being determines consciousness discontinuously, intermittmently, rarely.
Through most of the actual time of history, consciousness and being are
reciprocally determining. Superstructure determines superstructure in much
of actual historical time. Only rarely, in revolutions (punctuations in long
term equilibriums), primarily and ultimately, does being utterly determine
consciousness. This is what Marx and Engels mean by the base is _ultimately_
determining of super-structure.

Structuralists are super-structuralists, in Marx's framework from the famous
quote from the "Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy" .Levi-Straussian structuralism is superstructuralism.

On the other hand, the Marxist and dialectical question to structuralists is
" how does the structure change ? "


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