Marx After Marx : History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism / Harry Harootunian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harootunian, Harry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Capitalism.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its struggle with the Soviet Union and bolster the belief that capitalism remained dominant in the contest over progress. This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions. His outline of a diversified global capitalism was much more robust than was his sketch of the English experience in Capital and helps explain the disparate routes that evolved during the twentieth century. Engaging with the texts of Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, and other pivotal theorists, Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Deprovincializing Marx

1. Marx, Time, History

2. Marxism's Eastward Migration

3. Opening to the Global South

4. Theorizing Late Development and the "Persistence of Feudal Remnants": Wang Yanan, Yamada Moritarō, and Uno Kōzō

5. Colonial/Postcolonial 197

Afterword: World History and the Everyday

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231540131

0231540132

OCLC:

922528354