ENGL 275 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Oedipus Complex, Incest Taboo, Dreamwork
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Material forces of production: technologies, etc. agricultural, industrial, information technologies (materials to increase society) Legal + political superstructure: property relations, system of governance, etc, also includes the ideological forms. Ideological forms: religious, aesthetic, or philosophical elements + representations of the world. Material forces of production + relations of production = mode of production ( the real foundation ) Stage of development of the material forces of. Legal and political superstructure (property relations, system of governance, etc. ) Also includes ideological forms (religious, aesthetic, or philosophical elements) Stage development of the material forces of production (agricultural, industrial, etc. ) determines the relations of production (lord-serf, bourgeoisie-proletariat, etc. ), which determine legal + political superstructure (property relations, system of governance, etc. ) which also includes religious, aesthetic, or philosophical elements, that is, ideological forms. Revolutions only happen when the materials of production advance to the point that the relations change, and then everything else changes.