16 Against the whole Althusserian tradition - envincing again so much modern Marxism's profoundly ahistorical use of concepts. For Marx ideology arises only where social relations (or the natural world) manifest themselves to experience in misleading forms, and the critique of ideology accordingly involves showing - materially – why this should be the case. For Althusser, ‘the ideological instance' is (a priori) a social universal. Cohen (1978: Appendix) usefully demolishes this travesty of Marx.
17 Marx says this in several places, amongst them 1863c: 484; 1865a: 790f.; 1865b: 50–2; 1867a: 77, 236f., 539–40, 568f.
18 1978: ch.5.
19 There is reason to believe Marx modified his picture of Indian stasis, and optimistic assessment of the impact of English penetration, subsequent to 1853. In part this may have been occasioned by his awareness of the destructive consequences of capitalist penetration in Ireland. See Sayer and Corrigan (1983), and in more detail Watkins (1985). Shanin (1984, first essay) sees this as part of the novelty of late Marx'. The issue is of some contemporary importance, given the influence today of Warren's reading of Marx, which ignores such issues, taking the 1853 articles on India as Marx's last word on the subject.
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