Re: base-superstructure [was: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism]

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Actually, I think that base-superstructure Marxism
> > is not Marxism at
> > all.
>
> I'm glad you don't adhere to base-superstructure
> models.  Nevertheless, you must admit that such
> notions were widely prevalent in the historical
> workers movement, especially in the classical German
> Social Democracy which constituted the blueprint for
> all Marxism to come.

is there _anyone_ who currently believes in the totally deterministic
base/superstructure (BS) model?   It seems that assuming or asserting
that someone uses that model is nothing but a straw-man argument.

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Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not
stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht