Marxism missing, missing Marxism : : from Marxism to identity politics and beyond / / by Tom Brass.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 183
• VerfasserIn: Brass, Tom, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 183.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Examining how Marxist theory is missing but necessary, this book traces the theoretical maze in which Marxism currently finds itself, and from which it is trying to exit whilst at the same time remaining epistemologically intact. When stripped of any or all of its core elements - such as class formation/consciousness/struggle, and a socialist transition - it ceases to be what historically Marxists have claimed it is. Consequently, the book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, together with the danger of not doing so.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Marxism missing - presumed dead? -- How Marxism went missing -- Why Marxism went missing -- As clear as mud(de) -- Essentializing rurality? -- Marxism missing, but. -- Themes -- PART I: MARXISM MISSING -- CHAPTER ONE - Marxism(s) Within/Beyond the Nation -- Introduction -- The external/eternal 'other' -- The source of social miracles -- Because the country is hungry -- Winning the peasantry? -- A huge part of the people -- Class solidarity and/or cultural autonomy -- Nationalism beyond the nation -- Privileged sections, cheap immigrants -- An indispensable attribute -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO - From Marxism to the Cultural Turn (via Social History) -- Introduction -- Marxism and Third World development -- Populism, social history, and Third World (non-)development -- Enemy of the (Capitalist) State? -- History, methods, politics -- Social history and/as the 'cultural turn' -- Ambiguity + authenticity = absent Marxism -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE - From Marxism to Nationalism (via Imperialism) -- Introduction -- The authenticity of populism -- The inapplicability of Marxism -- Down the drain (once again) -- India's chief curse -- Populism, nationalism, postmodernism -- What did the Romans ever do for us? -- Conclusion.

CHAPTER FOUR - From Marxism to Agrarian Populism (via the Cultural Turn) -- Introduction -- Peasants, Marxism, Populism -- The 'cultural turn' and/as the 'new' populist postmodernism -- Russia then, India now -- Old Believers? -- Farmers, peasants, kulaks -- Old/new agrarian populism? -- A sense of robust realism? -- Conclusion -- PART II: MISSING MARXISM -- CHAPTER FIVE - From Marxism to Late Antiquity (via Postmodernism) -- Introduction -- The world beyond -- Citizens, state and economy -- Not death but resurrection -- Postmodernizing premodernity -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX - From Modern to Ancient Capitalism (via Bourgeois Economics) -- Introduction -- Capitalism, capitalism everywhere -- Money makes the world go round? -- Fear of feudalism -- All modes lead to Rome -- Had Marx lived... -- Marginalism is not Marxism -- Building castles in the air -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN - From Class Struggle to Identity Politics (via 'Otherness') -- Introduction -- Film, sameness, otherness -- To keep them divided -- Solidarity, struggle, socialism -- Magical (un-)realism -- Diasporic discourse -- On the shoulders of giants? -- Placid multiculturalism -- Celebrating Otherness? -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER EIGHT - Great Replacement, or Reaping the Capitalist Whirlwind (via Populism/Nationalism) -- Introduction: the last taboo -- White Fright, White Fight -- Demography, culture, civilization -- Who/what is responsible? -- Rival ethnicities, rival populisms -- Political economy and/as Great Replacement -- Migration and/as surplus labour -- Marxism and the industrial reserve -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION: Beyond Marxism, What? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.