Henry Heller is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. His many publications include The Cold War and The New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: The Ongoing Debate (Pluto Press, 2011).Peter Kulchyski, Ph.D. (1988), is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. His publications include Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice (UManitobaP, 2018), Aboriginal Rights are not Human Rights (ARP, 2014) and Like the Sound of a Drum (UManitobaP, 2005).

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Concerning a Concept1 An Ancient Trail through the Forest of Thought2 Mode of Production in the History of Theory3 Mode of Production in the Contemporary Theoretical Moment4 Three Modes of Production: Prefatory Description5 Final Thoughts for a First Chapter6 Source Note2 Capitalism1 The Capitalist Relation2 Origins and Primitive Accumulation3 Value4 The World Market5 Uneven Development6 Phases of Capitalism7 Merchant Capitalism8 State and Church9 Gender10 The Politics of Uneven Development11 Colonialism12 Resistance13 Revolution14 Industrial Revolution and Development of the Working Class15 Free Labour16 Monopoly Capitalism17 Revolution in Russia18 Actually Existing Socialism19 Fascism and War20 U.S. Hegemony and the Cold War21 Neoliberalism22 Source Note3 The Tributary Mode of Production1 The Tributary Mode and Capitalism2 Neolithic Inheritances3 Asiatic Mode of Production4 The Other Transition5 The Mediaeval Period6 Late Mediaeval Crisis7 Early Modern Feudalism8 Slavery9 The State and the Tributary Mode10 The Tributary Mode: Critique11 Source Note4 The Bush Mode of Production1 Introduction2 The Civilised/Savage Dichotomy3 Features of the Bush Mode of Production I: Egalitarianism4 Features of the Bush Mode of Production II: Communism5 Features of the Bush Mode of Production III: Nomadism6 Features of the Bush Mode of Production IV: Affluence7 Features of the Bush Mode of Production V: Expressive Culture and Spirituality8 The Global History of the Bush Mode of Production9 Bush History and Bush Culture: A Few Comments10 Conclusion11 Source Note5 Mode of Production and Materialist Cultural Politics1 Introduction2 Spatial Logics I: Capitalism3 Spatial Logics II: Tributary4 Spatial Logics III: Bush5 Temporal Logics I: Capitalism6 Temporal Logic II: Tributary7 Temporal Logic III: Bush8 The Logic of Subjectivity across Three Modes of Production9 Ways of Knowing10 Conclusion11 Source Note6 Mode of Production Now1 Capitalist Crises and Socialist Possibilities2 There Is No Outside?3 Totality and Totalisation4 Totalisation, Colonialism, and Mode of Production5 The Bifurcated Colonial Subject6 Totalization in the Capitalist World7 Identities and Modes of Production8 Ecology and the Anthropocene9 Egalitarianism and Effluence: The Socialism to Come10 Source NoteReferencesIndex