"Why Work? Marxism and Human Nature "

Most of the time, what we say and do is a reflection of the way we produce. Society judges people by their productivity; people perceived as not productively contributing to society, have less value than producers do. Unfortunately, productively contributing to society is a subjective concept, standardized by the powerful elite of the society.

I agree that most individuals often regard society’s perception of them, as a true reflection of who they are, and what their value is. I think this is true all of the time for most people, and at least some of the time for everyone.

Caregivers of humankind’s offspring – homemakers, and educators, responsible for producing the next generation of producers, by proxy, are undervalued. Their manufactory relationship to incomplete, and therefore, substandard producers, i.e., children, and college students, renders their final products as insufficient. Relatively few professors become exceptions, usually because of influential works they publish, rather than the number of successful producers they manufacture. Then, society judges them as producers of particular works, not the next generation of producers. Their works may influence an aspect of the manufacturing process (education). Society now views the published work as their product. Society no longer evaluates them on their former product, students. Disassociated from society’s undervalued product, their position in the superstructure is raised.
This defies logic, even from the p.o.v. of the base. Children are a composite production of multiple factors of both nature, and nurture. From Marx’s p.o.v., it defies both logic and reason.

Those providing for people too old, or too incapacitated, to produce for Marx’s base, are, also by proxy, undervalued by society. I view caregivers, educators, children, and the disenfranchised, as victims of Marx’s base. This is my personal view of capitalistic societies, especially the U.S..

All those we would consider moral patients, are considered by Marx’s base as unvalued, disposable products.

I think this is the foundational concept supporting, legitimizing, and maintaining the dominance of the base over the superstructure and everything in the material.