ABSTRACT
How can one continue to speak, for example, of a dichotomy between base and superstructure, when the reorganization and survival of capitalism at the regional and international scale increasingly depend on forms of political and ideological mediation (as in the educational and regional policies of the State and the Mediterranean policy of the EEC) which directly affect the supposed ‘laws of motion’ that are traditionally considered to determine superstructural events and patterns? And, to come closer to our subject, how can traditional Marxist discourse contend with old and new forms of social movements focusing on urban and regional issues of a clearly anti-capitalist and antiauthoritarian character, but not neatly constructed around specific ‘class interests’ and purely proletarian initiatives?
