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1- Infrastructure: The Economy 

2- Structure: The Social Classes 

3- Superstructure: Institutions and Ideologies 

4- Class Struggle 

5- The State and the Armed Forces 

6- Bourgeois Democracy and Dictatorship 

7- The Government 

8- Reform and Revolution 

9- Why we built La Marx 

10– La Marx International Regrouping the world revolutionaries

1– Infrastructure or Productive Forces 

The first concept of Historical Materialism is Infrastructure or Productive Forces. These are human beings, nature, and the relationship established between the two to produce wealth and the distribution of goods. All of this makes up the economy of a society. Human beings produce what is necessary for life by exploiting natural resources, and transforming raw materials into products, which in turn are distributed. The entire process of production and distribution is done through the Means of Production and Change. Marxism defines as Means of Production and Change factories, lands, banks, companies, where workers generate wealth, value and goods that allow the economic development of society. 

When the Means of Production and Change develop production, we define as development of the Infrastructure or Productive Forces of society. The opposite of this, is the Destruction of Productive Forces. Wars, the destruction of the environment, hunger and misery are an attack on the Productive Forces, which we call the Process of Destruction of Productive Forces. The armies, the Pentagon, the War budget, the military industry, etc. are part of the development of the Destructive Forces. 

Infrastructure- Mode of production 

The Mode of Production is the social system that prevails during a given period. For Marxism there are two great stages in the history of humanity: Primitive Communism and the Class Society. Primitive communism Primitive Communism is the social system in which the Means of Production are collectively owned, that is, of all. In school it is taught like prehistory, and at this stage there were no social classes. Over millions of years, scientists debate how many millions more ancient fossils are ever found. Exploitation Arises: The Asian Society Irrigation is a revolution in the productive forces that arose in 8.000 years, and gave rise to the Asian or Bureaucratic mode of production (China, Egypt, India, Persia, Mayas, etc.) 

There is no private ownership of the means of production yet, but a caste of bureaucrats arises that defines the des- tiny of the rivers. The state, the Patriarchate and the rich castes (bureaucrats, priests, and military) rise over the poor castes of peasants, artisans and slaves. The Class Society The Class Society raised in the VII century BC. The Society of Classes is the stage in which the Means of Production become Private Property and the Social Classes emerge. In school it is taught as a civilization, and it lasts approximately 2,700 years. 3 

Production Modes were developed: 

1) The Slaver (Greece and Rome) 

2) Feudalism (Monarchies, counties and duchies) 

3) Capitalism, which is the Mode of Production in which we are living 

2– Structure or Social Classes 

The Marxist concept of Structure or Relations of Production are the social classes and the relations between the classes that exist, in a given Mode of Production. In the Capi- talist Mode of Production there are 3 social classes, but 2 are the fundamental ones. 

The Bourgeoisie or Capitalist Class: It is the class of the owners of the Means of Production and Change. They live from the Profit that owning the Means of Production gives them, it is a very small class, absolutely minority in society. 

The Working Class or Proletariat: It is the class of those who live on a salary. They do not own the Means of Production; they only own their work force. It is a class larger than the bourgeoisie. 

In addiction to these two fundamental classes there are: The Middle Class or Petite or Petty Bourgeoisie: It is the class of small owners, who live on the profit that their small property gives them. They are the peasants, for example, who own a plot of land, or the small merchants, who own a business. In some countries it is a very large class, in others it is very small, but it is also larger than the bourgeoisie, although it lives permanently under the threat of ruin from the bourgeoisie. 

Social classes are stratified. There are higher strata, and different class sectors. For example, in the bourgeoisie there are industrial bourgeoisie, bankers, landlords, etc. These sectors of the bourgeois class constantly fight each other for profit; they all want to earn more. The middle class is also stratified, there are sectors of the upper petty bourgeoisie that live almost as bourgeois, while there are poor petty bourgeois like the peasants. This social class is divided in revolutions, one sector of this class, a minority, follows the bourgeoisie, and another sector, the poorest that is a majority, follows the working class. 

The working class and the bourgeoisie are the two fundamental classes of society because they express two projects of society: The bourgeoisie to the Class Society where the ruling class owns the Means of Production. The Working class to the Classless Society, where no one owns the means of production. The Middle Class, on the other hand, does not have its own project or follows the bourgeoisie, or follows the working class.

3- Superstructure: Institutions and Ideologies 

The Superstructure are the Institutions and Ideologies. We also call Ideologies with the term False Consciousnesses. The Executive Power, Parliament, the Church, Justice, political parties, the Armed Forces, etc. each of these institutions is part of the Superstructure of society. Each Institution imparts an ideology, for example the Church and the different churches impart an ideology called religion, which ex- plains that things exist and happen because there is something supernatural that decides everything and, is called God. The other institutions, such as political parties or the government, also impart ideologies. 

All these Ideologies or False Consciousnesses are taught in schools, churches, families, the mass media, the University, etc., with the aim of affirming and consolidating the Society of Classes. Ideologies can be specified in phrases such as "Employers and workers have common interests", or "Democracy is the best system of government", " The Armed Forces are to defend the Homeland", or "Businessmen are good because they give job". "Bourgeois and workers have common interests", or "Democracy is the best system of government", "The Armed Forces are to defend the Homeland", or "Businessmen are good because they provide work." 

Thus, each Institution does its job of hiding the reality of class differences, making us believe that we are all the same, that the laws are the same for everyone, that the military protects us, that the Homeland belongs to everyone, and that there were always rich and poor because God wanted it that way. The opposite of Ideologies and False Consciousnesses is science. Art and science are in the superstructure, but science does not appeal to God, and only affirms what is verifiable and quantifiable in reality. Marxism is a science called Historical Materialism, organized as a revolutionary Institution in a party that acts in the Structure and the Superstructure to combat these ideologies and False Consciousnesses. 

The Marxist party relies on the experience that workers and the people suffer every day seeing that the Armed Forces commit genocides, priests are pedophiles and live in luxury, justice is soft on the rich and harsh on the poor, the Entrepreneurs are thieves, they lay off in masse when they don't make a profit, and the bourgeois parties lie all the time. The masses thus make the experience between the False Consciences and Ideologies and reality, and the combat work that the party does, allows valuable elements of the people to approach Marxism

4- Class Struggle and Class Antagonisms

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels affirm: "The history of humanity is the history of the class struggle." Ideologies or False Consciousnesses seek to hide a verifiable scientific fact: That the class struggle exists. In Capitalism there is a contradiction: Wealth is produced by the work of the Working Class, that is, the production of value has a collective nature. But the appropriation of the wealth produced has a individual, or private nature, because the Means of Production are privately owned, that wealth is appropriated by the Bourgeoisie. This contradiction between collective production and individual appropriation gives rise to another phenomenon: The exploitation. 

The bourgeoisie leaves in the hands of the working class a small fraction of the value it produces for its subsistence in the form of wages, and the rest of the value produced, called surplus-value", is appropriated. Since the Capitalists appropriate the produced surplus value, the workers do not enjoy the wealth produced but work for the capitalist's profits. So, the objective of the capitalist Mode of Production is profit, not pro- duction. The bourgeois does not care if it makes candy, noodles, airplanes or cannons, what matters is that it makes a profit. And in order to obtain profit, it presses the workers to work longer hours, earn less, multiply the tasks, and not to demand anything, that is, it makes the situation of the working class unsustainable, and unbearable. 

That is where the interests of both classes, workers and bourgeoisie, collide because they are antagonistic, irreconcilable, which causes strikes, mobilizations, insurrections, and all expressions of the class struggle, until the Civil War. There is the ideology of the "Conciliation of classes" which states that the interests of the workers and the bourgeoisie are harmonious and coincide, "If the bosses win, the workers also win." This is false, the bourgeoisie only earn more if they increase exploitation, that is, if the workers earn less. The "Class Conciliation" is a False Conscious- ness, denied by the existence of the Class Struggle, raised by Marxism.

5- The State and the Armed Forces 

For Marxism the State is the social class that dominates. Following to Marx it's a "Board that administers the interests of the Bourgeoisie", in reference to capitalist state. Thus, that definition fight against the False Consciences or Ideology that the State is impartial, and that in front of the state we are all equal. That is to say, for Marxism the state it's a machine of the ruling class. Given that for Marxism the State is the social class that dominates, if the nobles dominate it is a feudal state, if the slave owners dominate, it is a slave state, if the bourgeois dominate it is a bourgeois or capitalist state, and if the working class dominates it is a worker state. For Marxism, the State is not neutral, has a class character. When we talk about Mexico, Brazil, India, United States or Japan they have a class character. We talk about capitalist Japan, capitalist United States, or capitalist Argentina. 

This is the Marxist definition of State. Now, as in the capitalist Mode of Production the ruling class, which is the bourgeoisie, is a minority, need a repressive force to impose its domination over the majority of the population. That repressive institution is the Armed Forces. If it is a small capitalist country like Argentina or Bangladesh, it is small armed forces, but if it is an imperialist capitalist country like the United States, it has the Pentagon and its 7 fleets to maintain the dominance of the capitalists over it. world. The Armed Forces are the pillar of the bourgeois or capitalist state, and have different forces such as the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Police, the Gendarmerie, the secret Security Services, etc. If the Armed Forces disappeared, the bourgeoisie could not maintain its dominance over society, because it is a minority social class that subjects the majority to a cruel Mode of Production based on exploitation. 

When popular uprisings occur, the Armed Forces are in charge of repressing them to maintain the dominance of the bourgeois governments. The existence of the Armed Forces, and their reactionary and undemocratic character, in their alliance with the ruling classes, provoke a permanent tendency towards undemocratic governments. In the imperialist stage, of the dominance of the monopolies, the tendency of capitalism is towards Bonapartism or anti-democratic regimes such as dictatorships. The masses must mobilize all the time to counter this tendency to Bonapartism of governments and the Armed Forces, defending free liberties and rights.

6- The Regime: Democracy and Dictatorship

The Regime are the institutions with which the bourgeoisie dominates, in a given period. In the Capitalist State there can be different types of regimes, which oscillate bet- ween Democracy and Dictatorship, that is, they suppress or grant democratic rights and freedoms. Like the State definition, regime definition has a class character. We talk about the bourgeois Democratic Regime when the bourgeoisie rules supported by institutions such as the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Power. 

The Bourgeois Dictatorship it's the regime in which the central institution that appears are the Armed Forces. While in Bourgeois Democracy the masses obtain relative democratic freedoms, in dictatorship rights are totally suppressed. Between these two regimes, bourgeois rule oscillates permanently.