But people wouldn't wait for the laws of economic determinism to operate upon us.
It is a species of economic determinism, the reverse of the one Marx described.
It thus rejected economic determinism being instead far more libertarian.
Yet more important, perhaps, is economic determinism, though not quite the kind that Chinese study in Marxism classes.
Some economic determinism applied, in the sense that the baseline of subsistence was assumed to have a serious effect on social matters.
They did not agree that economic determinism was a vulgar interpretation of Marx.
This became obvious when one had to specify exactly what the economic determinism precisely consisted of.
"A lot of the conservative right have used the phrase 'economic determinism' to describe the book," he said.
Such a view later became known as economic determinism.
But their economic determinism has influenced subsequent historians in important ways.