The Gotha programme to Benjamin "wishes to perceive only the progression of the exploitation of nature, not the regression of society".
Benjamin contrasted "technocratic" vulgar Marxism with Marx's response to the Gotha programme.
Wark wrote that the allegation entailed a dismissal of "too much attention to specialized knowledge such as the sciences" and a disdain for the "lack a sense of the central role of philosophy".
[6] John Phillips states that Julia Kristeva understands "vulgar Marxism" as synonymous with "vulgar sociologism", a view that "characterises ideology in terms of a superstructure determined by an economic/historical base (base and superstructure) [sic]".
[8] In other words, that rather than having innate properties, humans are almost exclusively shaped by societal circumstance: "Disease, illness, depression, and the pain of day-to-day living are no more than the inevitable consequence of a capitalist and patriarchal social order.