{"id":1438,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-commonalities-between-the-marxist-and-realist-upsc-psir-2022-3105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:28","slug":"discuss-the-commonalities-between-the-marxist-and-realist-upsc-psir-2022-3105","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-commonalities-between-the-marxist-and-realist-upsc-psir-2022-3105\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the commonalities between the Marxist and Realist approach to the study of International Politics."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">| R1 ideological opposites \u2192 yet both read world politics as material + conflict, not Intro routes ideals\/morality R82 openon the shared lens \u2192 materialist, structural, conflict-driven reading \u2192 morality set aside<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">materialism (realism: power &amp; survival \u2014 Morgenthau, Waltz \u2014 Marxism: historical Body flow materialism, world-system as capital) \u2192 conflict-prone arena (continuous power competition \u2014 opposed class interests) \u2192 hegemony &amp; world order (Carr: &quot;have&quot; vs \u201chave not&quot; powers) \u2192 scepticism of universal norms (moral talk masks dominant interests) \u2192 structural convergence (Waltz concedes Lenin on imperialism; Wallerstein&#039;s core-periphery || realism&#039;s systemic constraints)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">| central actor splits them \u2192 states in anarchy (realism) vs classes &amp; market forces in an Counter-view exploitative capitalist world-economy (Marxism)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 different actors, shared method \u2192 convergence runs deeper than the rivalry Conclusion routes R2 materialism + structure + conflict unite them \u2192 they part only on who acts and what the system is<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[74],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1438","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-approaches-to-the-study-of-international-relations","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1438\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}