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In the first lecture, Prof. Venktesh Athreya talks about Marx's approach to the study of society, which starts with the society as a whole. According to Marx, man's fundamental activity is production, which does not exist in isolation, but is essentially social production. As historical development occurs, production relations change to keep up with change, leading to contradictions with the existing production forces. The Marxist approach thus emphasises that every society is transitory and focuses on the use of historically specific analytical categories in the study of societies. Reading material for this lecture can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/open?id=12_P4w2_dYfAC2Yv7jCh_KqS19okzDsz2
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