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Book Synopsis Essays on Marxism and Asia by : Murzban Jal
Download or read book Essays on Marxism and Asia written by Murzban Jal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. In contrast to the infamous clash of civilisation thesis, this book argues for a humanist theory of civilisations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It claims that Parsis, despite being a migrant community, took strength from their Persian heritage and civilisation and rose to become the architects of industrial modernity in India. This book locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub- text. It then takes a phenomenological reading of caste in India and says that India is afflicted by a very strange illness called ‘silent blindness’ where humanity is silenced and blinded in front of the caste apparatus. It then analyzes how capitalism and modernity fashioned caste in the image of capitalism and how the Indian right- wing imagined its fascistic politics of race and racial superiority based on the image of caste hierarchy. The problem in India has been that the liberals could not take caste seriously so as to confront it and then annihilate this violent apartheid structure. This, the book argues, has led to the rise of fascism in India. The book concludes with positing two different strands of secularism, namely liberal or bourgeois secularism which merely separates religion and the state (but mixes these when required) and revolutionary secularism which humanises religion and politics first in order to find the human and class content in both. The chapters in this book were originally published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.
Book Synopsis Essays in Indian History by : Irfan Habib
Download or read book Essays in Indian History written by Irfan Habib and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
Download or read book New Asian Marxisms written by Tani Barlow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe current place of Marxism in Asian and Asian Studies thinking./div
Download or read book America's Asia written by Edward Friedman and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on the Asiatic Mode of Production by : Ferenc Tőkei
Download or read book Essays on the Asiatic Mode of Production written by Ferenc Tőkei and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia by : Riaz Hassan
Download or read book Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia written by Riaz Hassan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore three aspects of social transformation of Southeast Asian Societies namely, social change and develoment, the role of intellectuals, religious and cultural values. They are a tribute to the seminal contributions of the distiguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas.
Book Synopsis Marxism, Maoism, and Utopianism by : Maurice J. Meisner
Download or read book Marxism, Maoism, and Utopianism written by Maurice J. Meisner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking Development by : Peter Preston
Download or read book Rethinking Development written by Peter Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the ‘classical tradition’ of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Preston discusses the position of development studies in relation to the wider group of the social sciences in general and to sociology in particular. Using examples mainly from the study of Southeast Asia, he looks at the diversity of available ‘modes of social theoretic engagement’ and considers the work of the colonial administrator scholar, the humanist academic scholar, and the scholar who theorises on behalf of the planners, discusses the mode of political writing, and Marxian analyses of development; and considers the particular problems surrounding the elites of post-colonial ‘nation states’.
Book Synopsis Marxism and Social Revolution in India and Other Essays by : Puran Chandra Joshi
Download or read book Marxism and Social Revolution in India and Other Essays written by Puran Chandra Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aim Of The Essays Collected In This Volume Is To Promote A Serious Dialogue Among The Scholars Of Different Disciplines And Among The Scholars And Social Activists On The Theme Of Marxism And Social Revolution In India.
Book Synopsis Marxism in the Chinese Revolution by : Arif Dirlik
Download or read book Marxism in the Chinese Revolution written by Arif Dirlik and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the socialist response was unable to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.
Author :Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :222 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Essays on Communism in Asia by : Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies
Download or read book Essays on Communism in Asia written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marxism in Asia by : Colin Mackerras
Download or read book Marxism in Asia written by Colin Mackerras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism is a theory which originated in the context of nineteenth-century industrialised Europe. Despite its European origins, Marxism has actually found greatest significance as a doctrine for change in the context of the underdeveloped peasant societies of Asia. This paradox has only been resolved through adaptation of Marxism to suit the specific features of particular Asian societies. There has consequently been a differentiation of Marxism along national lines. In this book, first published in 1985, the theoretical and practical implications for this national differentiation of a ‘universal’ (European) theory are explored, followed by a more detailed analysis of the manner in which Marxism has developed during different historical periods in particular Asian contexts.
Book Synopsis The Magical Lantern by : Murzban Jal
Download or read book The Magical Lantern written by Murzban Jal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book The Magical Lantern is a collection of essays on Marxist philosophy. It is based on the philosophical reflection on Marx’s idea of phantasmagoria as the 'magical lantern' that creates eerie images, an idea that is central to Marx’s theory of modern capitalist societies. It talks of the importance of Marx’s philosophy and its application in concrete politics, especially in creating socialist humanist philosophy of human emancipation where global societies can be emancipated from the phantasmagorias that haunt them, thus able to transcend global capitalism which is in terminal and permanent crisis. It then critiques the rise of authoritarian regimes emerging all over the world and seeks to explain the rise of global totalitarianism. But it claims that the answer to authoritarianism is not liberalism since liberalism is part of the late imperialism in permanent crisis as well as it involves what Slavoj Žižek calls the Denkverbot ('the prohibition against thinking') and thus involves the return of the eerie phantasmagoria that does not allow critical thinking. However, the critique of liberalism does not relapse into orthodox Marxism, since this book argues that in the genre of orthodox Marxism the ghosts of Stalin and Mao with their own authoritarianism haunt philosophies of human emancipation. While Stalin is portrayed as a brutal counter-revolutionary who destroyed Marxism by evoking Marxism itself, Mao is presented as the alchemist of the revolution and a peculiar form of Stalinism in rebellion against Stalinism itself! The chapters in this book were originally published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.
Book Synopsis East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories by : Joyce Liu
Download or read book East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories written by Joyce Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading scholars from around the world suggest that radical ideologies have shaped complex historical processes in East Asia by examining how intellectuals and activists interpreted, rethought and criticized Marxism in East Asia. The contributors to this volume ask how we can use Marxism to understand East Asia in a global capitalist world, and where the problems that Marxism highlighted, including imperialism, domination and inequality, are increasingly prevalent. The volume draws on various disciplines to reinterpret Marx, and shed light on the complex dynamics of global capitalism in various historical/national contexts. The distinguished contributors illuminate, rethink and make accessible highly complex Marxist concepts, such as the question of class contradiction, the temporalities of capitalism, real and formal subsumption, relative surplus value and the commodity form, the question of class and the proletariat. At a time when people around the world are struggling to cope with the crises of global capitalism, this volume on regional responses to capitalism is especially welcome. It will be of interest to students and scholars of East Asian studies, social and political theory, sociology and globalization studies.
Book Synopsis Marxism Today by : Chronis Polychroniou
Download or read book Marxism Today written by Chronis Polychroniou and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-03-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 20th century, revolutionary socialism was not only gaining momentum but appeared destined to conquer the world. By mid-century, the red flag flew over capitals in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central America; by the 1970s over one-third of the world's population lived under socialist regimes. All that has changed. With the 20th century drawing to a close, the political map of the globe looks very different: most socialist states have collapsed, revolutionary movements have been abandoned, and the United States stands as the world's lone superpower. This unique volume examines these changes—the defeat of Marxism—and suggests that the present historical juncture is but a temporary setback in the march of the working class. The authors propose that Marxism remains the most useful approach in understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism and its decay, as well as the only path toward the liberation of society from class exploitation.
Book Synopsis Nationalism and Communism by : Hugh Seton-Watson
Download or read book Nationalism and Communism written by Hugh Seton-Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution. They examine features of revolutionary movements, and, particularly, revolutionary leadership in an analysis of the social conditions and personal motives which impel men towards forming revolutionary elites.
Book Synopsis The Mismeasure of Wealth by : Patrick Murray
Download or read book The Mismeasure of Wealth written by Patrick Murray and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray’s essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay and an introduction. Murray’s essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. There is no production in general; the production of wealth always involves specific social forms and purposes that matter in many ways. Marx’s attention to the dynamics and far-reaching consequences of historically specific social forms – in particular those that are constitutive of the capitalist mode of production – sets him off from classical political economy and traditional Marxism. In probing Marx’s dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital, The Mismeasure of Wealth establishes Marx’s singular relevance for critical social theory today.
