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“The root of politics, according to Marx, does not lie in the state; it lies in the social conditions underlying this institution, that is, in the material conditions of life as reflected through the mode of production.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Political Ideologies

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The statement paraphrases Karl Marx's own summary of his intellectual journey in the 1859 Preface: legal relations and political forms cannot be understood "by themselves", since "they originate in the material conditions of life" — what G. W. F. Hegel called civil society, whose "anatomy" lies in political economy. It reverses Hegel, for whom the…

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