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The Superstructure and the Base

Now, a long standing jibe of the enemies of Marxism, has always been that “They cannot even explain their own existence!”, by which they mean that the supposed strict determinism of Marxists ought to be able to explain how they themselves arose directly from the capitalist Economic Base of Society, “Like everything else is supposed to do!”

The explanation lies in the relative independence of the Superstructure of Society from its Economic Base. For that Superstructure rests on the Emergence of Levels in all systems, and most of all in the highest forms of organisation on the surface of this Planet – those involving Man and Society.