KnowraEconomic determinismLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Economic determinism, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 1Related 3Compared with 12Historical materialismCompared with: It is a reductive reading that can mistake material explanation for one-way economic causation.Marxist historiographyCompared with: Critics use this charge to question whether some Marxist accounts give material causes too much explanatory force.Mode of productionCompared with: It is a simplified reading that can reduce complex relations to one-way economic causation.Eduard BernsteinCompared with: Bernstein challenged deterministic predictions that capitalism’s contradictions would make its collapse inevitable.Louis AlthusserCompared with: Althusser rejected simple economic causation while critics have disputed whether his model escapes it.Raymond WilliamsCompared with: Williams opposed explanations that reduce cultural activity to an automatic effect of the economy.E. P. ThompsonCompared with: He rejected explanations that derive politics and culture mechanically from economic conditions.Economic anthropologyCompared with: The field examines economic life without reducing every social practice to economic causes.Base and superstructureCompared with: It is a reductive reading of the model that treats the superstructure as a passive effect.Structural MarxismCompared with: Structural Marxists reject reducing political and ideological structures to direct economic effects.Post-MarxismCompared with: Post-Marxism disputes this as a sufficient explanation of political change.Western MarxismCompared with: Western Marxism resists reducing politics and culture to direct effects of the economy.