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Discuss in what sense Marx’s understanding of state can be considered as materialistic.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Theories of the State

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Karl Marx explains the state from the way people produce their lives, not from reason, will or contract. The 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy states that legal relations and forms of state "have their roots in the material conditions of life". The claim holds in five senses, with one…

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  • Setting Hegel on His Feet
  • Five Senses of Materialism
  • An Indian Illustration
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