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Write short note: Mode of production.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Sociological Thinkers

Mode of production is the pivotal concept of Karl Marx's historical materialism. It names the specific way a society produces its material life, and above all the way a surplus is produced and who controls it. Marx periodised history not by what people produce but by how they produce it.

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