Administrative and ideological superstructures assume more 'manageable' proportions if they can be seen as subordinate to a more or less universal classroom reality.
Application of our ideological suspicion to the whole ideological superstructure in general and to theology in particular.
In consequence, pre-capitalist modes of production cannot be defined except via their political, legal and ideological superstructures.
"Vulgar Marxism" was seen as little other than a variety of economic determinism, with the alleged determination of the ideological superstructure by the economical infrastructure.
This economic 'base' of society supports, is reflected by and influences the ideological 'superstructure' which encompasses culture, religion, politics and all other aspects of humanity's social consciousness.
In the terms of classical Marxism, desire is part of the economic, infrastructural "base" of society, they argue, not an ideological, subjective "superstructure."
In this manner, Gramsci developed a theory that emphasized the importance of the political and ideological superstructure in both maintaining and fracturing relations of the economic base.
"Vulgar Marxism" has considered that the relation between the economical infrastructure and the ideological superstructure was a unicausal one, and thus believed in economic determinism.
Is correctionalist criminology, of any variety, consequently a part of the ideological superstructure that helps to maintain capitalism?
Sorel noted that Marx described the necessary ideological superstructure of societies: law, the organization of the state, religion, art, and philosophy.