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Discuss Karl Marx’s concept of class.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles", declares The Communist Manifesto (1848). Yet Karl Marx never gave class a formal definition: the chapter on classes closing Capital, Vol. III, breaks off unfinished. It must be assembled from several works and has both an objective and a subjective side.

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  • The Objective Criterion
  • Class Struggle and Historical Change
  • Class In Itself and For Itself
  • Critiques
  • Contemporary Relevance
  • Conclusion
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