For Marx, the means of production and the associated social relations provide the foundations / ‘base’ of society.
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→ this then gives rise to society’s ‘superstructure’, which encompasses facets such as politics, law, religion, media, culture; all the things inherent to our daily lives.
Marx argued that the superstructure tends to normalise the relations inherent within the economic structure.
→ Result is that the exploitative relations inherent in capitalism go unnoticed, appearing to us simply as the way the world is.