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Marxian socialism claims itself to be a scientific socialist theory capable of explaining the history of humankind. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels presented their socialism as fundamentally different from what they dismissively labelled "utopian socialism" — not a moral vision of a better world, but a scientific account of how all human history actually moves.

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  • Historical Materialism and the Motor of Class Struggle
  • The Critique of Capitalism as Scientific Analysis
  • The Predicted Trajectory: Revolution and Communism
  • The Basis for the Claim to "Science"
  • Critiques of the Scientific Claim

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