Abstract
The above-cited statements dealing with the interdependence of three different structures and pointing out at the same time the direction of this dependence were called the ‘laws of conformity’ by the continuators of Marxist thought.4
The countervailing influences, which distract and paralyze the functioning of a universal law, had to intervene, changing its character to a mere tendency.
K. Marx1
… The social relations within which individuals produce, the social relations of production, are altered, transformed, with the change and development of the material means of production, of the forces of production…2
… More or less rapid overthrow in the whole tremendous superstructure takes place, according to the changes in economic base.3
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K. Marx, Capital A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, London, 1908, Vol. Ill, pp. 278.
K. Marx, Wage Labour and Capital, New York, 1933, pp. 28–29.
K. Marx, Przedmiowa do Przyczynka do krytyki ekonomii politycznej ( Preface to the Critique of Political Economy ), Warsaw, 1955, p. 6.
O. Lange, Ekonomia polityczna, Warsaw, 1959, pp. 34–47. See English translation, Political Economy, Macmillan, New York, 1963-71, Two volumes - Ed. [The term ‘laws of necessary conformity’ was first used by Lange (see footnote 4) in reference to Stalin’s concept (in On Dialectical and Historical Materialism) of the necessary conformity between (a) the productive forces and the productive relations and (b) superstructure and basis; the author uses the term in this meaning, that is, under idealized conditions the productive relations conform to the prevailing type of productive forces and the superstructure conforms to the basis productive relations - Ed.] 4a ‘Steering center’ refers to both the government and the party.
In this sense, the term department is used to describe a semi-independently functioning vertical hierarchy.
J. Kornai, ‘Hypercentralisation of economic management’, Economic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1965.
J. Staniszkis, ‘Mechanizmy rozwoju i przeksztalceri struktur organizacyjnych’, Studia Socjologiczne 2, 1970, ‘The Mechanism of development and change of organizational structures’.
M. Crozier, The Bureaucratic Phenomenon, Tavistock, London, 1964.
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Staniszkis, J. (1979). Adaptational Superstructure — The Problem of Negative Self-Regulation. In: Wiatr, J.J. (eds) Polish Essays in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9353-2_12
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