Historical Materialism Book Series A Marxist Mosaic

The essays collected in this volume embody a lifelong engagement with Marxist theory across a wide range of subjects, exemplifying a view of historical materialism as an integrated field of research. They form a remarkable complement to the author’s prize-winning Theory as History. Historical materialism as Marx understood this was always an integrated conception or field of research, not one divided into separate disciplines. The essays gathered in this volume are a remarkable example of how this works across a wide range of subjects as diverse as agrarian history, capitalism, Hegel’s influence on Marx, and class struggles in India. They were written over some fifty years of both activism and academic work, embodying Banaji’s lifelong engagement with Marxist theory. His recent papers on merchant capitalism can also be found here, along with a biographical sketch that sets all of his work in context.