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Critically analyse the mode of production debate from different perspectives.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx, a mode of production combines forces and relations of production. The Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) lists the "Asiatic, ancient, feudal and modern bourgeois" modes as epochs. The debate asks how to name a real society's mode, and whether one mode or several exist at once.…

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  • The classical position and the Asiatic problem
  • The Indian agrarian debate (1969 to the early 1980s)
  • Articulation, dependency and world-system perspectives
  • Feminist critiques
  • Critical appraisal
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