This book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx’s Capital in the context of the East. It critically reassesses some of the familiar concepts in Capital and teases out issues that are at its periphery. In various essays, it explores this borderland to promote new concepts and modes of analysing Marx’s treatise in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it represents an advance in Marxian theory and politics. Examining Marx’s Capital from the perspective and location of the East, the book focuses on many issues that are at the ‘borders’ of Capital, which is concerned principally on unpacking developed capitalism. New concepts are introduced and set in relation to those championed by Marx in order to advance our understanding of economy, capitalism, development and politics. In this regard, the book offers a reading of Capital that is distinct from conventional reflections on it in the Western world. The scope is vast, covering much of the territory in Marx's Capital, as well as addressing a few new issues connected to Capital. The content is divided into the following sections: Reception of Capital in the East; Value, Commodity, Surplus Value and Capitalism; Population and Rent in Capital; and Issues Beyond Capital.
Author(s): Achin Chakraborty, Anjan Chakrabarti, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Samita Sen
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 367
Tags: Economic Policy, Marxist Approach, Capital
Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Sinicized Marxism as a Symptom of the Postcolonial Condition: Arif Dirlik, Mao Zedong, Xu Guangwei, and the Modern Regime of Translation (Jon Solomon)....Pages 3-26
Capital in Bangla: Postcolonial Translation of Marx (Rajarshi Dasgupta)....Pages 27-38
Communism and Capital: Marxists Literature in Southeast Asia (Bertil Lintner)....Pages 39-46
The Homeland(s) of Marxism: Labor Power, Race, and Nation After Capital (Gavin Walker)....Pages 47-67
Front Matter ....Pages 69-69
Marx and the Enigma of Commodity (Pranab Kanti Basu)....Pages 71-85
Global Production Network: The New Template of Power and Profit in the Regime of Empire (Satyaki Roy)....Pages 87-102
Finance Capital in Marxian Perspective (Byasdeb Dasgupta)....Pages 103-111
Front Matter ....Pages 113-113
Is There a Theory of Population in Capital? (Ranabir Samaddar)....Pages 115-136
Primitive Accumulation and Surplus Population: A Critique of Capitalocentrism in Marxian Theory (Rajesh Bhattacharya)....Pages 137-152
Marx’s Theory of Rent: A ‘Speculative’ Reading (Iman Mitra)....Pages 153-170
Front Matter ....Pages 171-171
The Problem of Reproduction: Waged and Unwaged Domestic Work (Samita Sen)....Pages 173-193
Non-violent Socialism: Marx and Gandhi in Dialogue (Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar)....Pages 195-219
Class Processes and Cooperatives (Manas R. Bhowmik, Achin Chakraborty)....Pages 221-240
