Mode of Production

The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory

Henry Heller, Peter Kulchyski (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

168 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-74521-6 (ISBN)

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Mode of Production: The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory reflects on the centrality of the title concept to understanding both the long duration of human history and the immediate moment, offering extensive theoretical and historical analyses of different modes.

Mode of Production: The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory re-invigorates the Marxist concept ‘mode of production’ by showing how it continues to have a central place in understanding the broad sweep of human history, while also offering crucial resources to inform social justice activism today. Drawing on recent materialist theory and newer insights from historical and anthropological scholarship, the book discusses the three modes of production that existed, the conflicts between them, the importance of Indigenous struggles to socialism, and explicates a materialist contemporary cultural politics. The book offers a pathway for activism and theory through the wide range of contemporary hegemonies.

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).

Preface

Introduction

1 Concerning a Concept

1 An Ancient Trail through the Forest of Thought

2 Mode of Production in the History of Theory

3 Mode of Production in the Contemporary Theoretical Moment

4 Three Modes of Production: Prefatory Description

5 Final Thoughts for a First Chapter

6 Source Note

2 Capitalism

1 The Capitalist Relation

2 Origins and Primitive Accumulation

3 Value

4 The World Market

5 Uneven Development

6 Phases of Capitalism

7 Merchant Capitalism

8 State and Church

9 Gender

10 The Politics of Uneven Development

11 Colonialism

12 Resistance

13 Revolution

14 Industrial Revolution and Development of the Working Class

15 Free Labour

16 Monopoly Capitalism

17 Revolution in Russia

18 Actually Existing Socialism

19 Fascism and War

20 U.S. Hegemony and the Cold War

21 Neoliberalism

22 Source Note

3 The Tributary Mode of Production

1 The Tributary Mode and Capitalism

2 Neolithic Inheritances

3 Asiatic Mode of Production

4 The Other Transition

5 The Mediaeval Period

6 Late Mediaeval Crisis

7 Early Modern Feudalism

8 Slavery

9 The State and the Tributary Mode

10 The Tributary Mode: Critique

11 Source Note

4 The Bush Mode of Production

1 Introduction

2 The Civilised/Savage Dichotomy

3 Features of the Bush Mode of Production I: Egalitarianism

4 Features of the Bush Mode of Production II: Communism

5 Features of the Bush Mode of Production III: Nomadism

6 Features of the Bush Mode of Production IV: Affluence

7 Features of the Bush Mode of Production V: Expressive Culture and Spirituality

8 The Global History of the Bush Mode of Production

9 Bush History and Bush Culture: A Few Comments

10 Conclusion

11 Source Note

5 Mode of Production and Materialist Cultural Politics

1 Introduction

2 Spatial Logics I: Capitalism

3 Spatial Logics II: Tributary

4 Spatial Logics III: Bush

5 Temporal Logics I: Capitalism

6 Temporal Logic II: Tributary

7 Temporal Logic III: Bush

8 The Logic of Subjectivity across Three Modes of Production

9 Ways of Knowing

10 Conclusion

11 Source Note

6 Mode of Production Now

1 Capitalist Crises and Socialist Possibilities

2 There Is No Outside?

3 Totality and Totalisation

4 Totalisation, Colonialism, and Mode of Production

5 The Bifurcated Colonial Subject

6 Totalization in the Capitalist World

7 Identities and Modes of Production

8 Ecology and the Anthropocene

9 Egalitarianism and Effluence: The Socialism to Come

10 Source Note

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 361
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	406 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-74521-1 / 9004745211
ISBN-13	978-90-04-74521-6 / 9789004745216
Zustand	Neuware