Johnny Cash – One Piece at a Time

'I never considered myself a thief' – Why?

Who does the finished car belong to?

What is it worth?

Why is the song funny?

SuperstructureSocial institutions which embody ideologies which

legitimate the base: the family, the law, education, the media, religion, political parties etc.

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BaseEverything necessary for production: raw materials,

factories, machines, banks and … the workers themselves. These constitute the relations of

production

Ideology:

According to Marx, ideology naturalizes, it historicizes, and it eternalizes. That is,

ideological structures appear to be natural, "according to the order of things"

ideological structures appear to be the logical conclusion to an historical development

there is an assumption that now that this (natural) state of affairs has been reached, things will be that way, barring regression

‘I know the British people and they are not passengers, they are drivers’

David Cameron

‘Exams work because they’re scary’

Boris Johnson

‘It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education’.

Barack Obama

‘This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism’.

Tony Blair

‘The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities’.

Margaret Thatcher

‘Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged’.

Ronald Reagan