Probings and Re-Probings: Essays in Marxian Reawakening

ISBN-13: 9781032150604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 404 str.

Sankar Ray; Shaibal Gupta

Opis

This book is the outcome of an international conference on Karl Marx organised by ADRI in Patna in 2018 keeping the new Marxian reality in mind. Over 50 scholars from across the world sent papers to the Conference, covering topics such as economics, politics, society, philosophy, etc.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Ancient Indian Dialectics and Marx 2. Marx’s Theory of Prehistory: In Memory of György Márkus. My Great Master Whom I Never Met 3. The Origins of Marxist Oriental Studies in the USSR and Its Stalinist Distortion 4. A Short History of Black Marxism in the USA 5. From Early Marx to Véquaud’s Countercultural Indophilia: Similar Aesthetics Founded on Romanticism and Communitarian Utopia 6. Sartre and Alienation: A Marxian Perspective 7. The Untimely Marx: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Political Dimension of Critical Economics 8. Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film 9. Historical Process and Gender Essentialism from a Dialectical Point of View: A Contribution to a Marxian Feminist Theory 10. Revolution, Emancipation and Social Reproduction 11. Manufacturing Profits: Modes of Surplus Extraction at the Lower End of the Global Value Chain 12. From Hegemony to Full Control: Which Kind of Elite, If Any, is Necessary for the Masters of the Universe? Reading Antonio Gramsci About the Role of the Intelligentsia, Yesterday and Tomorrow 13. Karl Marx and the Opium War 14. Marx or Utopia and Ideology Against Wisdom 15. Exploitation and Oppression Under Bourgeoisdom