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Historical Evaluation of Society according to the Karl Marx


According to Karl H. Marx history of Society is dependent on socioeconomic development, he further divided the stages of socioeconomic history of evolution into five distinct stages which are as follows:-

1. Primitive Communism

2. Slavery

3. Feudalism

4. Capitalism

5. Socialism








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