1st Edition

Contemporary Readings in Marxism A Critical Introduction

Edited By Ravi Kumar Copyright 2023
382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 Challenging the misinterpretation of Marxian theory as rigid, deterministic and outdated it shows how the concepts used by the framework... Read more

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.