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Do you agree with the notion that Marxist approach to the study of International relations is largely based on economic reductionism? Give reasons.

  • UPSC 2008
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  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Economic reductionism is the practice of explaining war, alliance, law and identity as by-products of the economic base. Karl Marx's Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) seems to invite the charge: the economic structure is the "real foundation" on which a legal and political superstructure rises. The charge fits classical…

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