• He suggests that the society is made out of base and superstructure
• Without the other the society would collapse
•  Instead of the organic anology marx suggets that the society is like a buildin in which ecomonic base controls the superstucture

•   Are  The Ideological Apparatus which has the power  to control the base
• This means they control the relations of production  and the means of production

•  There are four main approches of production including capitalism
•  These are known as  5 Epochs
• These are Primative communisim= equality 
• Ancient society = system of inequality come along (slave trend)
• Fedualism- Hierrachy system lord and kings
• Capitalism = Rationalisation
• Communism = were everyone are the same

•  Is all about consumerism and making profit to those who  own Means of production
•  There are two  types of classes  
• Those who own the means of production which are the Bourgeoiser
• Those who don't  own  the means of production are forced to sell their labour power 
•  These are called Proletariants

How  The Bourgeoises Exploit the Proletariant:

I.S.A

ideological control, sulphus value, alienation

•   They have the Ideological control=  they influence false consciousness   ti the proletariants
• Surphur value= wages of the workers is less in value than the sale which is  the profit  bourgeoise are making
• Alienation =   they exploi the proletarinats  and  physically & mental  exhaust them.

The communism  Revolution:

Marx believes that capitalism will eventually come to the end  

• The  capitalists will increase thier exploitation

e.g.  by stopping strikes and trade unions 

•  But the proletariants will  see through the  ideology and will become revolutionary
•  Therefore the society will become a classless society  

•  MARX  is too deterministic because  marxism  only focus on the conflict view and ingonres the conseus view
•  Communism has  not yet come to pass
• The claim that capitalism is disappering has not yet happened because through globlisation Capitalism has spread all over the world

Neo-marxism

Revialists  of marxism

Althusser:

 The concept of Relative autonomy

• He looks at how the human action is detemined by the social structure
• E.G. The  education system determines how  well you succed in life
•  He rejects Marx's idea  of  "Economic determinism"  as the believes that the society is made up of three elements

Political Stystem

 Is the system that organise the society

e.g  Laws and rules

•  Althusser believes  that we have Relative Autonomy  e.g. at work you can now that action if you are discriminated aganist as this is our human right
• Althusser knows that economy is important but  the ideological system and the political system aslo plays a big role in persuading the rest of the society to be be kept quite

 Althusser  claims that there are two  elements of the state  which provide force and persuation

• Repressive State Apparatus
• Idelogical Sate  Apparutus

 These are ideological a[pparaus such as

1. religon
2. education
3. family
4. media

These are  organisations such as The:

• Police
• Army force