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Ultimate reality, declares that Marxism, is material, not
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spiritual. What we know beyond any doubts is that human
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beings exist and live in social groups. All of our actions and
responses to such activities like eating, working, and even
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playing are related in some way to our culture and society. In
order to understand ourselves and our world, we must at first
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acknowledge the interrelatedness of all our actions within
society. If, for example, we want to know who we are and how
we should live, we must stop trying to find answers by looking
solely to religion or philosophy and beginning by examining all
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aspects of our daily activities within our own culture. Upon
examining our daily routines, including our beliefs and values,
we will discover that it is our cultural and our social
circumstances which determine who we are. What we believe,
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what we value, and, in many ways, what we think is a direct
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result of our culture and our society, not our religion or our
supposed philosophy of life.
When we examine our society, declares Marxism, we will
discover that its structure is built upon a series of ongoing
conflicts within social classes. The chief reason for these
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conflicts is the varying ways the members of society work and
utilize its economic resources. According to Marx, the methods
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of economic production and the social relationships they
engender form the economic structure of society is called the
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base. In America, for example, the capitalists exploit the
working classes, determining for them their salaries and their
working conditions, among a host of other elements of their
lives.