User:Xen725/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this because evaluating an article relating to Marxism seems like good practice for the final project of the class. It is also a topic that I find personally interesting.

Evaluate the article
I believe the quality of this article is mixed. The lead section and the "Applications and revisions" section are fantastic. The lead provides a concise summary, and the attached image provides a visual representation. The "Applications and revisions" section provides many differing interpretations, extensions, and criticisms from various scholars who have developed the idea in different ways. This lets us see the diversity of how historical materialism is applied. However, I think the "Model and qualification" section could use more work. It relies extremely heavily on a large block quote from Marx, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, I can imagine that someone who does not have experience reading older documents, and who does not have any experience with Marxist theory would be confused by this. I believe that due to the complexity of the topic, having the quote may be good idea, since any simplification will have to leave out many crucial details, but I still believe that an accompanying simplification would make the article much more readable and accessible to those without prior knowledge.