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Economism, sometimes spelled economicism,[1] is "the most orthodox [position in Marxism which] provides one-to-one correlations between the socio-economic base and the intellectual superstructure".[2][3] Economism refers to the distraction of working-class political activism from a global political project to purely economic demands. The concept encompasses rewarding workers in socialism with money incentives, rather than incentivizing workers through revolutionary politics. The term is originally associated with Vladimir Lenin's critique of trade unionism.
- ^ Garber, Megan (30 June 2014). "Why 'Efficiency' Is Inhumane". The Atlantic. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ Policy Futures in Education, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005. Transmodernism, Marxism and Social Change: some implications for teacher education Mike Cole, Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln, United Kingdom
- ^ Young, R.M. (1998) Marxism and the History of Science The Human Nature Review. "The defining feature of Marxist approaches to the history of science is that the history of scientific ideas, of research priorities, of concepts of nature and of the parameters of discoveries are all rooted in historical forces which are, in the last instance, socio-economic. ... There are variations in how literally this is taken ... There is a continuum of positions."