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Discuss the relationship between base and superstructure in Marxist theory.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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The metaphor is Karl Marx's, from the 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: the relations of production form the economic structure, "the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure". The debate within and around Marxism is over how strong that "arises" is: mechanical reflection, or conditioning with…

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