Unlock Elite Access: Level Up Your Preparation with Exclusive Content

PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Comment: “State is the result of the irreconcilability of class antagonism”. (Lenin)

  • UPSC 2007
  • Theories of the State

Unlock the full answer · ₹1,770 ↓

The formula titles the opening section of V. I. Lenin's The State and Revolution, written in August–September 1917 between the two Russian revolutions. Lenin's own wording is "The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms." His purpose was polemical: to recover, against Karl Kautsky and the Second International's reformists,…

You are reading the opening of the model answer. The full answer is part of the PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions.

What the full answer covers

  • Source and Meaning
  • The Strongest Case
  • Critiques
  • Conclusion
PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions

PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions

Unlock this answer and 1,393 more

  • 1,394 solved UPSC PSIR PYQs from 1991 to 2026, Paper-1 and Paper-2
  • Topic-wise across all 40 syllabus units
  • A full model answer for every question
  • Read online on lotusarise.com, plus PDF download
  • 500 days of access from the day you enrol

₹1,770₹5,00064% off

Get PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions @ ₹1,770 →

One-time payment · No subscription · Instant access · UPI, cards, RuPay

See every Theories of the State question (39 solved) →Already enrolled? Log in