Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Ravi Kumar

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 383
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume straddles between being a compilation of chapters exploring the fundamental conceptual categories within Marxism while engaging with those categories at the same time demonstrating the dynamic ability of the Marxian theoretical paradigm to evolve. Challenging the misinterpretation of Marxian theory as rigid, deterministic and outdated it shows how the concepts used by the framework become relevant tools for understanding and analysing society. Divided across two parts the volume grounds the Marxian concepts in a concrete historico-material context of India.

It will be an important source for any student interested in social theory in general and Marxism in particular.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction
Marxism: On the Relevance of the Theory and the Need for Engagement
Marxism and Capitalism
Chapter 1: Historical Materialism: A Critical Assessment
Chapter 2: Post-Classical Marxian Critique of Political Economy
Chapter 3: Commodity Value Money and Capital
Chapter 4: What is Capitalism? Capital: Another Reading
Chapter 5: Land in Marxian Theory
Chapter 6: Primitive Accumulation: Concepts and Debates
Chapter 7: Theorizing the Capitalist State
Chapter 8: Marxian Theories of Crises
Chapter 9: Marxism and the Question of Culture
Chapter 10: Twenty-First Century Socialism and a Theory of Practice
Marxism and the Indian Context
Chapter 11: The Agrarian Question in India
Chapter 12: Development of Capitalism in India
Chapter 13: Concept of Caste and Practices of Jati: Exploring Roots of Incomparability
Chapter 14: Understanding Caste
List of Contributors

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