the relation of supersturicture to base is clearly still very valid - indeed it actually underpins much of the 'critique' you are trying to put forward.
ditto materialism, you strongly assert that it is nonsense but offer no argument for your opinion. personally, I totally disagree, i think the past few years, since the fall of the old stalinist empire, proves that admirably. The gulf wars, new labour, bush, all explicable by applying materialist (indeed dialectical materialist) concepts and models, not by applying idealist ones (which is, a Im sure you know, the only alternative).
By the way, Marx NEVER said he could predict the future.
You sure you've read the man?
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