File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-27.112, message 37


Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 01:00:26 +1000
From: rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au (Rob Schaap)
Subject: M-I: Determination: 1st and last instance


First a note to this list's patient moderators.  For purely selfish
reasons, I am assuming that the midnight hour *here* constitutes the
all-important moment at which 3 new posts are allowable ...

Something I've always wanted to know:

Gary said something the other day about the base being determinant 'in the
last instance'.  Am I right in assuming that (a) determination 'in the
first instance' means every superstructural development is a direct
consequence of the base (ie. something that could not help but occur in
light of the contemporary materially productive mode) and (b) determination
'in the last instance' means there is a degree of autonomy in the
superstructure, but all human agency occurs within boundaries set by the
base at any given moment?

Thanks in advance, Rob.




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