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" Marxism and the question of the Asiatic mode of production "
by Marian Sawer.
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774148
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b594142
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by Marian Sawer.
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Marxism and the question of the Asiatic mode of production\ by Marian Sawer.
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Hague, Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff, [, 2001] ©1977
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Studies in social history (International Institute of Social History), 3.
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(vi, 252 pages).
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9400996853
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: 9789400996854
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Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1977.
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I. The Prehistory of the Marxian Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production.- The Legacy of Aristotle.- Travellers' Tales.- Oriental Despotism and French Politics, the First Phase: A Negative Model for Europe.- Oriental Despotism and French Politics, the Second Phase: A Positive Model for Europe.- Empires Belonging to Space and not to Time.- The Contribution of Political Economy: The Relation of Private Property to Progress.- II. The Marxian Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production.- Marx's Perception of the Non-Western World.- Alternative Interpretations: The Question of the Continuity or Discontinuity of Marx's Model of Asiatic Society.- Marx's Analysis of Asiatic Society in the General Perspective of his Social Theory.- The City in East and West.- The Ancient East.- The Asiatic Village System: Passport to the Future?.- The Contribution of Engels to the Marxian Analysis of the Non-Western World.- 'Asiatic Feudalism'.- The Asiatic Mode of Production and Sino-Soviet Relations.- 1. The Beginnings of the Debate: 1925-1926.- 2. The Introduction of the Term Asiatic Mode of Production.- 3. The Peak of the Debate 1929-1931.- 4. The Arguments Used Against the AMP Concept.- The Impact of the Sino-Soviet Rift.- III. The Asiatic Mode of Production in Relation to the Place of Geographical Factors in Historical Materialism.- Marx on the Role of Geographical Factors in Historical Development.- Engels' Account of Laws of Nature.- The 'Geographical Deviation': Plekhanov.- The 'Geographical Deviation': Wittfogel.- Historical Materialism Versus Geographical Determinism: Stalin and Beyond.- The Revolt of the Soviet Geographers against Stalin 129.- The Reassessment of the Place of Geographical Factors in Historical Materialism.- A Note on the Population Factor.- IV. Marxist Perspectives on Russian History: The Practical Application of the Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production.- Marx's Conception of the Character of the Russian State: Russia Contrasted with Europe.- Marx and the Service-State Theory of Russian History: A Parallel Theory of the Non-European Character of Russian History.- Russian History in European Dress: The Orthodox Marxist Approach.- Plekhanov on Russian History: The Alternative Marxist Approach.- Modernisation in a Non-Western Milieu: Trotsky on Russia's Past and Present.- V. The Asiatic Mode of Production in Relation to the Marxist Analysis of Progress and Modernisation.- The Unilinear Schema of Social Development.- The Hegelianised Version of the Unilinear Schema.- Chronological and Logical Problems Associated with the Progressive Ranking of Socio-Economic Formations.- The Multilinear Schema of History as Found in Marx.- Variations of the Multilinear Schema as Applied to Pre-Capitalist Societies.- The Dynamics of Modernisation in the Non-Western World: Towards a New Marxist Historiography.- VI. Epilogue.- Select Bibliography.- Works by Marx and Engels.- Other Works Consulted.
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Asiatic mode of production.
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Marxian economics.
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Production (Economic theory)
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HB97.5B963 9999
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Marian Sawer
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