Raju J Das

Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India. Volume 2

A Class Theory Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

A magisterial class based analysis of the political situation in contemporary India

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781642594294
• ISBN-10: 1642594296
• Artikelnr.: 62160224

Autorenporträt

Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface to Paperback Editions
  1 Introduction
 1 Why Class?
 2 Why Not Class – Why Not a Class-Based Analytical Framework?
 3 Components of a Class-Based Framework for Understanding Contemporary
India
 4 The Chapter Outline
  2 Class in India
 1 Existing Criticisms against Class Analysis of India
 2 Existing Approaches to Class in India
 3 A Critique of Existing Approaches to Class in India
 4 Constructing a Class-Based Framework
 5 Conclusion
  3 The Capitalist Character of Class Society in Post-colonial India:
Moving Beyond the Mode of Production Debate
 1 The Development of Capitalist Relations, and the Barriers to This: A
Brief Discussion on the Indian Mode of Production Debate
 2 A Critique of Some Influential Ideas in the Indian Mode of Production
Debate
 3 Examining India’s Capitalist Character on the Basis of Marx’s
Distinction between Formal and Real Subsumptions of Labor
 4 Class Struggle and the (Slow and Uneven) Transition to Real Subsumption
of Labor
 5 Class Struggle and the ‘Blocked’ Transition to Real Subsumption of Labor
 6 Possibilities of, and Limits to, Real Subsumption of Labor
 7 Jairus Banaji’s (and Others’) Mistaken Subsumption of Labor Perspective
 8 Conclusion
  4 Neoliberal Capitalism with Indian Characteristics
 1 Neoliberalism: Its General Traits
 2 Neoliberalism in India: The Context
 3 Neoliberalism with Indian Characteristics: Eight Theses
 4 Concluding Comments: What Is to Be Done?
  5 Capitalism and Technological Change: Reflections on the
Technology-Poverty Relation
 1 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: The Thesis and the
Anti-thesis
 2 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: A Critique of
Neo-Malthusianism
 3 Technology, Population and Poverty: A Contingent Relation
 4 The Green Revolution and Poverty in India: An Empirical Analysis
 5 Conclusion
  6 Low-Wage Neoliberal Capitalism, Social-Cultural Difference, and
Nature-Dependent Production
 1 Shrimp Aquaculture and the Missing Laborer
 2 A Labor-Based Approach to Nature-Dependent Commodity Production
 3 The Local, National and the Global Contexts
 4 Working for Less and in Poor Conditions: ‘Capital’ Negated
 5 Making Sense of Low-Wage Capitalism: From the General to the Locally
Specific
 6 Conclusion
  7 Class Relations, Class Struggle, and the State in India
 1 Existing Views on the Indian State: A Critical Review
 2 The Indian State and Its Class Base
 3 A Coalition/Alliance of Proprietary Classes
 4 The Indian State, Lower Classes, and Lower-Class Struggle
 5 State Form, State Policy, and Class Struggle
 6 The Indian State and the Class Contradictions of Economic Development
 7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index