Economic determinism is generally taken to be the position that economic laws and
relations govern the structure of society and the nature of our relations themselves. Prima
facie, the claim is exceptionally strong: it necessitates the causality between the economic
aspects of our social reality (such as the modes of production and derivatively the
material means of subsistence) and the non-economic aspects (such as our social,
political, intellectual, spiritual, etc. lives) completely. These claims are generally linked to
Marx and Engels.