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Base and Superstructure is a fundamental concept explicitly or implicitly common to all socialisms but due as such to Marx and [[Marxism]]. The base is equivalent to the [[mode of production|MoP]] and the social order enforcing it. The superstructure is the entire remainder of society, culture, technology, institutions, etc. which [[dialectical materialism]] posits as being based upon the material conditions and circumstances of production, i.e. the MoP. Critical theory and writings on the topic are mainly concerned with how the one affects and/or conditions the other.
'''Base''' and '''Superstructure''' form a synthetic pair explicitly or implicitly common to all socialisms but due as such to Marx and [[Marxism]]
where it serves to distinguish the essential basis of various [[social orders]] from various other formative and persisting social conditions.


== Marx and Engels ==
The base is equivalent to the [[mode of production|MoP]] and the social order enforcing it. The superstructure is the entire remainder of society, culture, technology, institutions, etc. which [[dialectical materialism]] posits as being based upon the material conditions and circumstances of production, i.e. the MoP. Critical theory and writings on the topic are mainly concerned with how the one affects and/or conditions the other.


== Lenin and Trotsky ==
To quote Marx ("[[Critique of Political Economy]]" MEW13, 8f):


== Non-Marxian Socialists ==
{{Cquote|In the social production of Mans life there are certain factors, independent of him, relations of production, which contribute their productive power corresponding to a given level of material development. The totality of these relations of production form the economic structure of society, the real basis upon which the juridical and political superstructure rests, and which corresponds to  particular forms of social consciousness.|
 
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== Bourgeois Currents ==
 
== 'Socialist' Market Economy ==
 
The [[CCP]] claims to have a "socialist market economy"{{fact}}. This raises a number of interestings issues and tests of the concept.


== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [[Althusser]]
* [[Althusser]]
* [[Dialectical Materialism]]
* [[Historical Materialism]]
* [[Materialism]]
* [[Reification]]
* [[Reification]]


=== External Links ===
== External Links ==
 
# [http://www.politisches-woerterbuch.de/index.php?title=Basis_und_%C3%9Cberbau Basis und Überbau] A German Political Lexicon Wiki.
# [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism02.html Marxist Media Theory]
# [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism02.html Marxist Media Theory]
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