1 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Name of Student Affiliate Institution Course Name Professor’s Name Date 2 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Marx's perception of culture as passive comes from the connection between base and superstructure. Base is made up of forces of production which mainly comprise raw material, technology, and human knowledge and relations of production that are primarily involved with the class connections of individuals within the production. On the other hand, superstructure passively mirrors the things happening at the base. It is the superstructure and historical conditions that generate pop culture. History is decided by the creation and reproduction of actual life. Therefore, despite subjecting humans to long hours of labor and eliminating any possibility of creativity, industrial capitalism is regarded as a pop culture since it is a necessity that makes us feel like humans. In non-alienated communist environments, a worker is expected to portray natural creativity through labor. As a result, individuals with talents are concentrated while the rest of the population is ignored and suppressed—this technique brought about the concept of divi ...
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