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Marx treats individual primarily as a member of a class.’ Critically examine his views on the ‘economic man.’

  • UPSC 1992
  • Western Political Thought

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The 1867 Preface to Capital treats persons "only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of particular class-relations and class-interests". Karl Marx thus replaces the economic man of classical political economy with the class individual. It is a powerful critique of liberal abstraction that breeds a reductionism of its own.

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  • The Economic Man Marx Rejected
  • Why the Individual Appears as a Class Member
  • Critical Examination
  • Conclusion
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