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Evaluate Marx’s ideas on mode of production.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx, the mode of production is the specific way a society produces and appropriates its means of life. It unites forces and relations of production and is his key to classifying societies and explaining change: powerful as a method, weaker as a universal history.

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