Jairus Banaji, DPhil (Oxon), is with the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University Of London. His earlier books include Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (2007), Theory as History (2011), and A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (2020).

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables1 Introduction: A Left-Wing LifePart1 Early Interventions (1968–1973)2 Anti-Syme3 Sartre and the Crisis of Marxism4 The Crisis of British Anthropology5 Letter to Mandel6 Backward Capitalism, Primitive Accumulation and Modes of ProductionPart2 The Platform Group Writings (1977–1979)7 A Philosophy of Revolutionary Practice: The First Two Theses on Feuerbach8 Dialectic and History: Work, Alienation, Classes and the State in Sartre’s Critique9 From the Commodity to Capital: Hegel’s Dialectic in Marx’s Capital10 Gunder Frank in Retreat?Part3 The Peasantry, Rural Labour, Modes of Production11 The Peasantry in the Feudal Mode of Production: Towards an Economic Model12 Chayanov, Kautsky, Lenin: Considerations towards a Synthesis13 Modernising the Historiography of Rural LabourPart4 Antiquity, Islam, and the Arab World14 The Social Background of Some African Martyrs15 Giuseppe Salvioli’s Capitalism in the Ancient World (with Paolo Tedesco)16 Islam and Capitalism17 The Subversive Universe of Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of SaltPart5 Issues in Marxist Theory (2009–2019)18 Reconstructing Historical Materialism: Some Key Issues19 Seasons of Self-Delusion: Opium, Capitalism and the Financial Markets (Deutscher Lecture)20 State and Capital in the Era of Primitive AccumulationPart6 Merchant Capitalism (2016–2021)21 Marxism and Merchant Capitalism22 Merchant Capitalism, Peasant Households and Industrial Accumulation: Integration of a Model23 Andrew Liu’s Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India24 The Labyrinth of Capital: Reading the History of Capitalism through Jute and RubberPart7 Fascism25 The Political Odyssey of Arthur Rosenberg, Germany’s Forgotten Marxist26 Psychoanalysis under Fascism: Andreas Peglau’s Study of Reich27 Nationalism Is the Bedrock upon Which All Fascist Movements Have Built Themselves28 Weimar Themes: Hilferding, Sohn-Rethel, and HamiltonPart8 India: The Left and the National Movement29 The Comintern and Indian NationalismPart9 India: Class Struggles in the Countryside and Cities30 The Metamorphoses of Agrarian Capitalism31 Illusions about the Peasantry: Karl Kautsky and the Agrarian Question32 The Ironies of Indian Maoism33 A Short History of the Employees’ Unions in Bombay, 1947–1991 (with Rohini Hensman)34 Multinationals and the Evolution of Industrial Conflict: Bombay 1956–1984 (with Rohini Hensman)with Rohini HensmanReferencesIndex