1st Edition
Contemporary Readings in Marxism A Critical Introduction
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 Challenging the misinterpretation of Marxian theory as rigid, deterministic and outdated it shows how the concepts used by the framework become relevant tools for understanding and analysing society.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.
Introduction: Marxism: On the Relevance of the Theory and the Need for Engagement
Ravi Kumar
MARXISM AND CAPITALISM
1. Historical Materialism: A Critical Assessment
Anjan Chakrabarti
2. Post-Classical Marxian Critique of Political Economy
Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Dhar
3. Commodity Value Money and Capital
Pranab Kanti Basu
4. What is Capitalism? Capital: Another Reading
Pranab Kanti Basu
5. Land in Marxian Theory
Pranab Kanti Basu
6. Primitive Accumulation: Concepts and Debates
Rajesh Bhattacharya
7. Theorizing the Capitalist State
Surajit Mazumdar
8. Marxian Theories of Crises
Rohit Azad
9. Marxism and the Question of Culture
Paresh Chandra
10. Twenty-First Century Socialism and a Theory of Practice
Jakob Graf and Anne-Kathrin Krug
MARXISM AND THE INDIAN CONTEXT
11. The Agrarian Question in India
Amit Basole
12. Development of Capitalism in India
Rajesh Bhattacharya
13. Concept of Caste and Practices of Jati: Exploring Roots of Incomparability
Padmanabh Samarendra
14. Understanding Caste
Anand Teltumbde
Biography
Ravi Kumar teaches Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. He is Associate Editor of Society and Culture in South Asia.
