Talk:Base and superstructure (Marxism)

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[edit] My role shifts from original composition to translation

I started this page ignorant of the German wiki entry. Having become aware of the latter after the interwiki link appeared am proceeding to just translate the other article and have integrated with my original stub text. Lycurgus 01:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Should say that of course I haven't squatted this article, such a thing being in principle impossible here. Also I'm not trying to say that the German article is perfekt and couldn't be improved upon. Lycurgus 18:32, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Lycurgus for starting and expanding this entry with the help of the German Wikipedia. I've used a different version of the Marx quote from a published English translation (see here) rather than using your translation of the original German (which the German wiki apparently retrieved from the multivolume Marx Engels Werke (MWE)). I think this makes more sense and allows readers to look at the original text online which I linked to. Also the quote in question comes from the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, not from "Critique of Political Economy" which is the subtitle of Das Kapital. There's much more that could be said about this topic (for example an expansion of Williams' thoughts on the matter, inclusions of comments from Engels, and a discussion of the "vulgarization" of the base/superstructure model by Stalinist theory), but this is a pretty decent beginning.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 18:51, 8 December 2007 (UTC)