a totality of mental and material state
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An invaluable piece of Marxist thought to understand is, as it was once put to me, the totality of social relations. This means that humans are interdependent, they are constantly influenced by and influence others and their surroundings in a perpetual cycle of cause and effect. Their social relations, how they view and are viewed by others, are products of the material world. This material world is created by the influence of this perpetual cycle. This is what Marx refers to as the reproduction of a material condition.
Society is constantly in flux, meaning everything is in motion, affecting everything around it (hence the cycle of cause and effect). So each material condition, meaning each way society is organized, must constantly reproduce itself a certain wait to survive in this state of flux. That means the motions, actions, and relations created by them must remain a certain way for the material condition to exist. It is because social relations exist in THIS manner that THIS capitalist material condition continues to exist. But how are relations produced? Relations are produced by the manner in which people are socialized, meaning the process of instilling what ideas, actions, and relations they see as normal, or valid. That which controls these things are referred to by Marx as the means of mental production; that which produces how we think, act, perceive, etc.
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a totality of mental and material state