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Analyse the salient features of historical materialism.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Sociological Thinkers

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory that the way people produce their material life is the key to the structure of a society and to its transformation over time. Its clearest statements are in The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels, 1846) and the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859). Its…

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  • Primacy of material production
  • Forces, relations and mode of production
  • Base and superstructure
  • Being determines consciousness
  • Contradiction and class struggle as the motor
  • A stage sequence of history
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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