A subtweet: base/superstructure models are a static architecture-based analogy at odds with best insights of historical materialism
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Marx used the b/s metaphor in the 1859 preface, which sits at odds with both earlier Grundrisse and later Capital
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agree, it's not a helpful metaphor and misleading. Also contradicted by Engels' letter to Schmidt
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at best, it's a reductive model. Gramsci, Altbusser, Poulantzas all improved on it
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