Marx Blog

1. Marx's Bases of society: It consists of three levels:
- The most basic level is society's conditions of production, which are the natural conditions and resources that are available to society. These are the foundations of any society and determine the type of production in a society.
- The second level is the society's means of production. This consists of the various types of equipment, tool, and machinery, as well as the raw materials to be found in each society.
- The third level is society's production relations. This is mainly those who own the means of production, the division of labor, and the distribution of work and ownership.

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- society's conditions of production:

- society's means of production:

- society's production relations:

3. In picture 1: it can be seen how a river, as a natural resource, passes though all the plantations. it is most likely, that the river is used as a source of watering the plants. Plantations by rivers are always successful.

In picture 2: it can be seen, how the machine is used to cultivate and move the plants. The planting is done on a river, so special equipment is needed to pick-up the plants.

In picture 3: it can clearly be seen that the man standing on the front and it well dressed it the owner of that hacienda, and is looking out at the jobs of the people that is working for him.

4. Marx's Basis of Society can be compared to several areas of knowledge. For example, it can be compared to Ethics. It is important to mention that not every society has the same rules and norms. It might be that in a society, what Marx calls production relations is not of the important basis of a society. Workers are much more important that the group that owns a plantation, for instance, because is their work that helps the production and external relations of it. Another area of knowledge that can be related to Marx's idea is History. Marx's idea was used in history to show how life in society was represented, and which were the basis of it. For example, in Brazil, while the cacao and oil plantations in the slavery period, rivers as a natural resource were highly needed to provide water for the plants. Oil was gotten from palm trees, which most of the time laid in costal areas, which were close to large bodies of water, which not only provided water for them, but also was the cause of the large percentages of precipitation which created longer periods of rain, which leads to a faster production of products.




- http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/dfn/ForestPractices/silv.htm
- http://farmsupplies.in/Rice-transplanter.html
- http://www.netspeed.com.au/rryburn/USA.html