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Explain Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalistic mode of production and class-struggle. What are the intellectual reactions to his views?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Sociological Thinkers

In Capital, Volume I (1867), Karl Marx treated capitalism not as a natural economy but as a historically specific mode of production, whose laws of motion generate class struggle and its eventual supersession. Few theories have provoked as many rebuttals and repairs.

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  • The capitalist mode of production
  • Class struggle
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