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Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate’ to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism.
The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, racial capitalism and the ways in which Eurocentrism has shaped the historiographies of capitalism. In doing so, the book offers novel approaches to studying the origins, modalities and contradictions of capitalism.
Advancing an integrated framework that incorporates class, gender, race and ethnicity, the book opens pathways to new research for better understanding, resisting and transcending capitalism.
"This book delivers rigorous analyses of the heterogenous histories and experiences of capitalist production, oppression, and exploitation, grounded in non-Eurocentric and non-productivist frameworks. It challenges a stagist understanding of capitalism while incorporating theoretical innovations from the literatures on social reproduction and racial capitalism. The chapters both clarify and raise urgent questions about racialized and gendered production and reproduction that will benefit established and emerging scholars alike. The theoretical contributions of the chapters and the debates that they engender will open new avenues of understanding and theorizing capitalism. They also offer possibilities for articulating visions of liberation and emancipation", Sirisha C. Naidu, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"This collection helps re-equip Marxist political economy with the intellectual tools to respond to an era of permanent capitalist crisis, anti-egalitarian politics and the need for radical political alternatives. Deeply engaging reading", Benjamin Selwyn, University of Sussex.
"Gender, race and Eurocentrism are often peripheral in debates on capitalism. Bringing these concepts centre stage through the powerful voices of established and new scholars, this book makes a critical contribution to our understanding of capitalism. Mode of Production and Historiography of Capitalism is a welcome addition to Marxist scholarship and should be read by anyone wanting to understand the complex and urgent crises facing us". Shirin Rai, SOAS, University of London.
Jokubas Salyga is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Kayhan Valadbaygi is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History.
Introduction: Bringing Gender, Race and History into the Mode of Production Debate - Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi
Part I: Re-Entering the Hidden Abodes of Production
1. The Rise and Decline of Unilinear Marxism - Marcel van der Linden
2. Denaturalising Capitalism: Transforming Marxist Visions of the Past - Paolo Tedesco
3. Marxism and Late Antiquity - Jairus Banaji
4. The Latin American Chapter of the Modes of Production Debate - Leonardo Marques and Waldomiro Lourenço da Silva Júnior
5. Marxism and the Concept of a Social Formation - Tony Burns
6. Rethinking the Social Property Relations Approach - Andreas Bieler
Part II: Excavating the Intersections of Production and Reproduction
7. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation: Past and Present - Silvia Federici
8. Forms of Exploitation and Social Reproduction: Jairus Banaji & Silvia Federici on Capitalism, Value and Unfree Labour - Alessandra Mezzadri
9. Class Struggle and the Working-Class Family - Rohini Hensman
10. Social Reproduction Theory: State of the Field and New Directions in Geography - Vivian Deidre Rodriguez-Rocha
Part III: Disrupting Eurocentric Narratives: The Interiorities of Racism, Colonialism, and Capitalism
11. How is a Marxian Theory of Racialisation Possible? - Peter Hudis
12. Plantation Slavery and the Capitalist Mode of Production - Abigail B. Bakan
13. Enslaved African Labour: Violent Racial Capitalism - Andy Higginbottom
14. Settler Colonialism and the (Re)production of Capitalism - Sai Englert
15. How the West Came to Rule, or Knocking on an Open Door - Sébastien Rioux
16. The Orientation of Racial Capitalism - Yousuf Al-Bulushi
17. Racial Capitalism as a European Empire-Based World System? Caste and Tribe and Racialised Neoliberal Capitalism in India - Jens Lerche
18. Beyond Eurocentrism: Rethinking Global Capitalism Through ‘Tropical Marxism’ - Kolja Lindner
Conclusion: Mode of Production as a Social History of the Many - Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi