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===The legality question===

A criticism{{weasel inline|date=October 2012}} of the base and superstructure theory is that [[property relations]] (supposedly part of the base and the driving force of history) are actually defined by legal relations, an element of the superstructure. This suggests that the distinction between base and superstructure is incoherent, and undermines the theory as a whole. Defenders of the theory claim that Marx believed in property relations and social relations of production as two separate entities.<ref>{{cite journal|author-last=Cahan |author-first=Jean Axelrad |title= The Concept of Property in Marx's Theory of History: A Defense of the Autonomy of the Socioeconomic Base |journal=[[Science & Society]] |volume=58 |number=4 |date=Winter 1994–1995 |pages=394–395 |jstor=40403448 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40403448 }}</ref> G.A. Cohen offered a detailed textual analysis to argue this was based on a false interpretation of Marx's position.

===Neoliberalism and the state===