Any modern approach to a Marxist theory of culture must begin by considering the proposition of a determining base and a determined superstructure. From a strictly theoretical point of view this is not, in fact, where we might choose to begin.1 It would be in many ways preferable if we could begin from a proposition which originally was equally central, equally authentic: namely the proposition...

In their article, “Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism,” Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend centrist liberalism, Kress cycle managerial capitalism, Kondratieff waves. These can be understood by addition implied terms in Marx’s advanced discussion commodity-form through an approach that calls Marxism.