Jairus Banaji
Biographical Note
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).
Readership
Academic libraries, post-graduate students, lecturers and others interested in social and economic history, Marxist theory, peasant studies, new approaches to fascism, and/or modern India.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
1 Introduction: A Left-Wing Life
Part 1 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
Part 2 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?
Part 3 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
Part 4 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
Part 5 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
Part 6 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
Part 7 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
Part 8 India: The Left and the National Movement
29 The Comintern and Indian Nationalism
Part 9 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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