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Biography of a blunder : base and superstructure in Marx and later /

Engaging with a critical analysis of the base and superstructure thesis, regarding which a surprising number of reputed Marxist thinkers betray a perpetual ambivalence - by frequently deploying it in a variety of contexts, but simultaneously airing various reservations about it - this book proposes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edara, Dileep
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle up on Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Engaging with a critical analysis of the base and superstructure thesis, regarding which a surprising number of reputed Marxist thinkers betray a perpetual ambivalence - by frequently deploying it in a variety of contexts, but simultaneously airing various reservations about it - this book proposes a radical departure from the presently predominant understanding of it. The popular view of the base as comprising economics, and superstructure as encompassing almost all other spheres of social life, is criticised as "panoramic", or "panoptic", or the "extended" version, to which Marx's rigorously.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:144388961X
9781443889612