A Marxist Mosaic : : Selected Writings 1968-2022.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.316
• Author: Banaji, Jairus.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (871 pages)

The essays collected in this volume embody a lifelong engagement with Marxist theory across a wide range of subjects, exemplifying a view of historical materialism as an integrated field of research. They form a remarkable complement to the author's prize-winning Theory as History.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Tables and Figures -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: A Left-Wing Life -- ‎Part 1. Early Interventions (1968-1973) -- ‎Chapter 2. Anti-Syme -- ‎Chapter 3. Sartre and the Crisis of Marxism -- ‎Chapter 4. The Crisis of British Anthropology -- ‎Chapter 5. Letter to Mandel -- ‎Chapter 6. Backward Capitalism, Primitive Accumulation, and Modes of Production -- ‎Part 2. The Platform Group Writings (1977-79) -- ‎Chapter 7. A Philosophy of Revolutionary Practice: The First Two Theses on Feuerbach -- ‎Chapter 8. Dialectic and History: Work, Alienation, Classes and the State in Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason -- ‎Chapter 9. From the Commodity to Capital: Hegel's Dialectic in Marx's Capital -- ‎Chapter 10. Gunder Frank in Retreat? -- ‎Part 3. The Peasantry, Rural Labour, Modes of Production -- ‎Chapter 11. The Peasantry in the Feudal Mode of Production: Towards an Economic Model -- ‎Chapter 12. Chayanov, Kautsky, Lenin: Considerations towards a Synthesis -- ‎Chapter 13. Modernising the Historiography of Rural Labour: An Unwritten Agenda -- ‎Part 4. Antiquity, Islam, and the Arab World -- ‎Chapter 14. The Social Background of Some African Martyrs -- ‎Chapter 15. Giuseppe Salvioli's Capitalism in the Ancient World (with Paolo Tedesco) -- ‎Chapter 16. Islam and Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 17. Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt -- ‎Part 5. Issues in Marxist Theory (2009-19) -- ‎Chapter 18. Reconstructing Historical Materialism: Some Key Issues -- ‎Chapter 19. Seasons of Self-Delusion: Opium, Capitalism and the Financial Markets -- ‎Chapter 20. State and Capital in the Era of Primitive Accumulation -- ‎Part 6. Merchant Capitalism (2016-2021) -- ‎Chapter 21. Marxism and Merchant Capitalism.

‎Chapter 22. Merchant Capitalism, Peasant Households, and Industrial Accumulation: Integration of a Model -- ‎Chapter 23. Andrew Liu's Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India -- ‎Chapter 24. The Labyrinth of Capital: Reading the History of Capitalism through Jute and Rubber -- ‎Part 7. Fascism -- ‎Chapter 25. The Political Odyssey of Arthur Rosenberg, Germany's Forgotten Marxist -- ‎Chapter 26. Psychoanalysis under Fascism: Andreas Peglau's Study of Reich -- ‎Chapter 27. Nationalism Is the Bedrock upon Which All Fascist Movements Have Built Themselves -- ‎Chapter 28. Weimar Themes: Hilferding, Sohn-Rethel, and Hamilton -- ‎Part 8. India: The Left and the National Movement -- ‎Chapter 29. The Comintern and Indian Nationalism -- ‎Part 9. India: Class Struggles in the Countryside and Cities -- ‎Chapter 30. The Metamorphoses of Agrarian Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 31. Illusions about the Peasantry: Karl Kautsky and the Agrarian Question -- ‎Chapter 32. The Ironies of Indian Maoism -- ‎Chapter 33. A Short History of the Employees' Unions in Bombay, 1947-1991 (with Rohini Hensman) -- ‎Chapter 34. Multinationals and the Evolution of Industrial Conflict: Bombay 1956-1984 (with Rohini Hensman) -- ‎References -- ‎Index -- Back Cover.