A Marxist Mosaic

Jairus Banaji, DPhil (Oxon), is with the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University Of London. His earlier books include Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (2007), Theory as History (2011), and A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (2020).

Acknowledgements

List of Tables



1 Introduction: A Left-Wing Life



Part1 Early Interventions (1968–1973)



2 Anti-Syme



3 Sartre and the Crisis of Marxism



4 The Crisis of British Anthropology



5 Letter to Mandel



6 Backward Capitalism, Primitive Accumulation and Modes of Production



Part2 The Platform Group Writings (1977–1979)



7 A Philosophy of Revolutionary Practice: The First Two Theses on Feuerbach



8 Dialectic and History: Work, Alienation, Classes and the State in Sartre’s Critique



9 From the Commodity to Capital: Hegel’s Dialectic in Marx’s Capital



10 Gunder Frank in Retreat?



Part3 The Peasantry, Rural Labour, Modes of Production



11 The Peasantry in the Feudal Mode of Production: Towards an Economic Model



12 Chayanov, Kautsky, Lenin: Considerations towards a Synthesis



13 Modernising the Historiography of Rural Labour



Part4 Antiquity, Islam, and the Arab World



14 The Social Background of Some African Martyrs



15 Giuseppe Salvioli’s Capitalism in the Ancient World (with Paolo Tedesco)



16 Islam and Capitalism



17 The Subversive Universe of Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt



Part5 Issues in Marxist Theory (2009–2019)



18 Reconstructing Historical Materialism: Some Key Issues



19 Seasons of Self-Delusion: Opium, Capitalism and the Financial Markets (Deutscher Lecture)



20 State and Capital in the Era of Primitive Accumulation



Part6 Merchant Capitalism (2016–2021)



21 Marxism and Merchant Capitalism



22 Merchant Capitalism, Peasant Households and Industrial Accumulation: Integration of a Model



23 Andrew Liu’s Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India



24 The Labyrinth of Capital: Reading the History of Capitalism through Jute and Rubber



Part7 Fascism



25 The Political Odyssey of Arthur Rosenberg, Germany’s Forgotten Marxist



26 Psychoanalysis under Fascism: Andreas Peglau’s Study of Reich



27 Nationalism Is the Bedrock upon Which All Fascist Movements Have Built Themselves



28 Weimar Themes: Hilferding, Sohn-Rethel, and Hamilton



Part8 India: The Left and the National Movement



29 The Comintern and Indian Nationalism



Part9 India: Class Struggles in the Countryside and Cities



30 The Metamorphoses of Agrarian Capitalism



31 Illusions about the Peasantry: Karl Kautsky and the Agrarian Question



32 The Ironies of Indian Maoism



33 A Short History of the Employees’ Unions in Bombay, 1947–1991 (with Rohini Hensman)



34 Multinationals and the Evolution of Industrial Conflict: Bombay 1956–1984 (with Rohini Hensman)

 with Rohini Hensman



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