Base & Superstructure

Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping White Short Sleeve 100% Combed Ring Spun Cotton Profits to: Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee Philosopher Karl Marx explains the idea of our social dynamic as a system composed of a Base and Superstructure are two linked theoretical concepts: Base refers to the production forces, or the materials and resources, that generate the goods society needs as well as the relations of production like employer–employee work conditions, the technical division of labor, and property relations, into which people enter to produce the necessities and amenities of life.  Superstructure describes all other aspects of society including the culture, ideology, norms, and identities that people inhabit. In addition, it refers to the social institutions, political structure, and the state—or society's governing apparatus. Marx argued that the superstructure grows out of the base. The superstructure is shaped by the ruling class as its regula