*hollering though a megaphone to anyone who'll listen* structure and agency are not discrete forces but share a reciprocal relationship *static crackle* bite me althusser

to elaborate i think althusser's conception of the "break" in marx's work, relying on his later works as a rejection and revision of his earliest works rather than an expansion upon them, isn't built on a solid foundation, and that plays into his overemphasis on structure over agency rather than understanding them as forces with a reciprocal relationship, as we conventionally understand the base and superstructure