The Marxist Political Economy is the most distinguished political economy theory across the world,because it directly explores the essential nature of the political economy.Based on the basic principles of the Marxist Political Economy,and according to archaeological evidence and research,we can reconstruct the archaeological theory to create the new theory and methods.It could offer more potential benefits for future archaeology.Practically,we can transform the productivity,production relations and superstructure into the laborers,labor materials,and labor objects,which could be archaeologically recognized.The dominant ownership forms of production materials in the social economic foundation can be divided into two considering items:the ownership forms of labor materials and labor objects.Production relations are involved into the relationships between the production and distribution,production and exchange,production and consumption.Given the consideration about the dominant productivity and production relations,one can figure out the principle production forms of a certain society,namely one of the most significant attributes of its social formation.The superstucture is composed of the social organizations and intellectual culture.Based on this,the superstucture can analysed in terms of social organizations and polities,as well as the intellectual culture.
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