Category of historical materialism corresponding to the economic foundation, refers to the legal and political system, organization, institutions and social ideology established on a certain economic foundation. Marx figuratively compared the structure of society to an edifice, and regarded the relations of production, i.e., the economic structure, as the economic foundation of this edifice, and correspondingly the political and ideological and cultural structures of society as the superstructure of the edifice…
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