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What is the contemporary relevance of Marxism?

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Theories of the State

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Few doctrines have been buried as often as Marxism. As the Soviet bloc fell, Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" (1989) treated liberal capitalism as humanity's final form. Yet the contradictions Karl Marx identified — accumulation, crisis, the cheapening of labour, a world market built on unequal terms — describe the present uncomfortably well. Marxism's relevance…

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  • Concentration and Crisis
  • Labour and Technology
  • The World System
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