This week on Comradio, we discuss the history of a controversial concept, Base and Superstructure. From Marx to Gramsci to Political Marxism to the anti-colonial perspectives of Fanon and others, with several other stops between.

 

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The German Ideology - Karl Marx (1845)

 

The Wretched of The Earth - Frantz Fanon (1963)

 

Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory - Raymond Williams (1973)

 

Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx (1859)

 

Engels letter to J.Bloch in Konigsberg (1890)

 

The Concepts of Ideology, Hegemony, and Organic Intellectuals in Gramsci’s Marxism - Valeriano Ramos, Jr. (1982)

 

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics - J.V. Stalin (1950)

 

Louis Althusser and Base & Superstructure

 

Democracy against capitalism - E.M.Wood (1995)

 

The Brenner Debate

 

Base and Superstructure: A Reply to Hugh Collins - G. A. Cohen (1989)

 

If You Want to Understand Marxism, Read G. A. Cohen - Ben Burgis in Jacobin (2022)

 

Colonial Lives of Property : Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar (2018) at Hive

 

Whiteness as Property - Cheryl I. Harris (1993)

 

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard (2014) at Hive