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The ''Superstructure''' is an important component of the Regime of Accumulation. It is the politico-legal (State) and ideological building that sits upon the Base (a.k.a. Infrastructure) of the regime.Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In ''Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.'' Monthly Review Press, 1971. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm..."
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The ''Superstructure''' is an important component of the [[Regime of Accumulation]]. It is the politico-legal ([[State]]) and [[Ideology|ideological]] building that sits upon the [[Base]] (a.k.a. Infrastructure) of the regime.<ref>Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In ''Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.'' Monthly Review Press, 1971. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm.</ref> The Superstructure consists of the </blockquote>

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" The Marxist tradition is strict, here: in the Communist Manifesto and the Eighteenth
Brumaire (and in all the later classical texts, above all in Marx’s writings on the Paris
Commune and Lenin’s on State and Revolution), the State is explicitly conceived as a
repressive apparatus. The State is a ‘machine’ of repression, which enables the ruling
classes (in the nineteenth century the bourgeois class and the ‘class’ of big landowners) to
ensure their domination over the working class, thus enabling the former to subject the
latter to the process of surplus-value extortion (i.e. to capitalist exploitation).

The State is thus first of all what the Marxist classics have called the State Apparatus.
This term means: not only the specialized apparatus (in the narrow sense) whose
existence and necessity I have recognized in relation to the requirements of legal practice,
i.e. the police, the courts, the prisons; but also the army, which (the proletariat has paid
for this experience with its blood) intervenes directly as a supplementary repressive force
in the last instance, when the police and its specialized auxiliary corps are ‘outrun by
events’; and above this ensemble, the head of State, the government and the
administration.

Presented in this form, the Marxist-Leninist ‘theory’ of the State has its finger on the
essential point, and not for one moment can there be any question of rejecting the fact
that this really is the essential point. The State Apparatus, which defines the State as a
force of repressive execution and intervention ‘in the interests of the ruling classes’ in the
class struggle conducted by the bourgeoisie and its allies against the proletariat, is quite
certainly the State, and quite certainly defines its basic ‘function’."<ref>Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In ''Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.'' Monthly Review Press, 1971. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm.</ref>

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