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Marx, the State, and Primitive Accumulation: Rethinking Dispossession Under Capitalism book cover

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Marx, the State, and Primitive Accumulation Rethinking Dispossession Under Capitalism

By Raju J Das Copyright 2027
334 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Critically engaging with contributions from both the Global North and South, this book offers a systematic rethinking of Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation and its relevance to contemporary capitalism. The book argues that recent attempts to reinterpret dispossession often suffer from conceptual overstretch and a neglect of production and class relations. The book’s focus is the concept... Read more

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Marx, Primitive Accumulation, and Its Critics

Chapter 2: Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation

Chapter 3: Critiques and Revisions of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation

Chapter 4: David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession

Chapter 5: A Marxist Response to Critiques of Primitive Accumulation

Part II: Primitive Accumulation, the State, and Capitalist Totality

Chapter 6: Primitive Accumulation and Capitalist Totality: A General Framework

Chapter 7: Forms of Property and Primitive Accumulation

Chapter 8: Violence, Ideology, and the Social Effects of Primitive Accumulation

Chapter 9: The Spatio-Temporality of Primitive Accumulation

Chapter 10: Primitive Accumulation, the State, and Class Struggle in Odisha, India

Chapter 11: Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?

Index

Biography

Raju J Das is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, Canada

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