Marx’s perspective became rigidified into static, mechanistic, and deterministic distinctions between the economic base and the ideological, legal, and political superstructure. The Frankfurt ...

He explained that Marxism had developed materialism beyond ... Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation. We see, for example, that the various political forms of ...

But he rejected the economic determinism of orthodox Communist Marxism, which had sought to characterize culture as a merely ...