What Marx's Materialism Isn't

Even many people who think of themselves as Marxists are confused by what "material" means in the context of Marx's "materialism" and hence about the core claims of the theory. Let's sort it out!

I’ve written about Marx’s materialist theory of history several times for Jacobin (and once here). In most cases, the context for the Jacobin pieces was about dinging right-wingers for bashing Marxism without understanding its basic claims. The previous time here was about exploring the finer points in the context of talking about this book (which I was…