In this article, I want to offer up a new interpretation of historical materialism. From this point forward, I will simply call historical materialism ‘materialism’. When Marxists refer to themselves as ‘materialists’, they are attempting to ground their analyses in historical materialism—they are claiming their analyses show fidelity to the material conditions of struggle, and are grounded in the science of Marxism. So I will simply say ‘materialism’. I wish to offer a new theory of Marxist materialism. I believe there is a lot of confusion about what Marxists really mean when they claim they are ‘materialists’, and so in this contribution I wish to make an argument for what I mean when I claim I am a materialist.
https://vidak.substack.com/p/hypermaterialism-ideology-under-late
https://vidak.substack.com/p/hypermaterialism-ideology-under-late
@vidak @yogthos@mas.to solid article, it might be worth mentioning Gramsci and the idea of cultural hegemony though, at least in passing :)