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• accumulation of constantly evolving social interactions between people.
• He asserted that it reconfigured the superstructure in drastic ways and instead posed a “materialist” way of understanding history.
• Marx argued that this is not a neutral relationship, as a great deal depends on the way the superstructure emerges from the base. The place where norms, values, beliefs, and ideology reside, the superstructure legitimizes the base.
• Known as “historical materialism,” this idea posits that what we produce in order to live determines all else in society.
• Marx reframed the relationship between base and superstructure as dialectical, meaning that each influences the other. Hence, if the base changes so does the superstructure; the reverse occurs as well.

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