Karl Mark, although unpublished in his lifetime has come to provide key insights into the critique of capitalism where alienation is the main focus. The concept of superstructure is his basis for a capitalist society. Marx's writings and his ideologies dominated a particular era. He believed everything that people say, imagine and conceive, included in such things as politics, laws, morality and religion were all crucial to the superstructure. The superstructure that Marx writes of is broken into two distinct social classes: the proletariat and the bourgeois. Those who own the means of production and controlling power, or the bourgeois, work together to rule the institutions in society that govern civil …show more content…
As a result, it has been determined that there is a certain level of comfort within the working class in attaining the bare necessities in life and that there is no realization of the fact that they are making the rich richer as opposed to helping themselves attain more power. Therefore, through false consciousness and the lack of class consciousness, the bourgeois was able to perpetuate