Between the economy as the base and the state, including the government, as the superstructure, much focus in the text that dominates economic policy debates is on the superstructure.
While this observation does not imply that the state plays no role in casting economic reality, the dominant focus on the superstructure, most of all the government, has failed to go to the root of the principal economic problems facing our society.
We are told that the state should refrain from involvement in or at least minimise intervention in the economy. We are also told that the state should actively intervene