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Analyse Marxian theory of social change. Is it useful to comprehend the changes in the developing societies?

  • UPSC 1982
  • Sociological Thinkers

Karl Marx treats social change as endogenous, dialectical and conflict-driven. Societies transform because contradictions within their economic base mature into class struggle and revolution, not because ideas or elites will it. The theory remains a strong starting point for developing societies, but it must be heavily modified there.

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