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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you accept that Marxism offers a prefabricated theory of social change? Discuss critically.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Sociological Thinkers

A prefabricated theory would be a ready-made ladder of primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism and socialism, fitted onto every society regardless of its history. Orthodox Marxism often worked this way. Karl Marx's own method, and much later Marxism, do not. The charge holds against the codified doctrine, not against the method.

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  • The case for "prefabricated"
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  • An Indian test: the mode-of-production debate
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