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Two things:
- Material reality: lived experience and perceived environment, the relationships of a person, group, community, society, etc. with the world, including nature, or with other people, groups, communities, or societies
- Culture: Habits, biases, etc. - narrative used to explain or respond to material reality
These two things dictate the bulk of how people operate within society and make choices. This is base and superstructure. You have to develop your understandings of both and expand your perspective on them beyond yourself in order to transform reality (especially if you want to do so in a way which lasts). This is the process of action and reflection which is revolution.
False revolution alters only one or neither. Changing narrative without changing material circumstance = further lying, simply propaganda, verbalism. Changing material reality without changing narrative = activism, relapse, incrementalism.
Our relationships evolve out of our material reality and our culture and bind them.