Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism

Jokubas Salyga is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Kayhan Valadbaygi is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History.

• Introduction: Bringing Gender, Race and History into the Mode of Production Debate - Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan ValadbaygiPart I: Re-Entering the Hidden Abodes of Production1. The Rise and Decline of Unilinear Marxism - Marcel van der Linden2. Denaturalising Capitalism: Transforming Marxist Visions of the Past - Paolo Tedesco 3. Marxism and Late Antiquity - Jairus Banaji4. The Latin American Chapter of the Modes of Production Debate - Leonardo Marques and Waldomiro Lourenço da Silva Júnior5. Marxism and the Concept of a Social Formation - Tony Burns 6. Rethinking the Social Property Relations Approach - Andreas BielerPart II: Excavating the Intersections of Production and Reproduction7. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation: Past and Present - Silvia Federici8. Forms of Exploitation and Social Reproduction: Jairus Banaji & Silvia Federici on Capitalism, Value and Unfree Labour - Alessandra Mezzadri 9. Class Struggle and the Working-Class Family - Rohini Hensman10. Social Reproduction Theory: State of the Field and New Directions in Geography - Vivian Deidre Rodriguez-RochaPart III: Disrupting Eurocentric Narratives: The Interiorities of Racism, Colonialism, and Capitalism11. How is a Marxian Theory of Racialisation Possible? - Peter Hudis12. Plantation Slavery and the Capitalist Mode of Production - Abigail B. Bakan13. Enslaved African Labour: Violent Racial Capitalism - Andy Higginbottom14. Settler Colonialism and the (Re)production of Capitalism - Sai Englert15. How the West Came to Rule, or Knocking on an Open Door - Sébastien Rioux16. The Orientation of Racial Capitalism - Yousuf Al-Bulushi17. Racial Capitalism as a European Empire-Based World System? Caste and Tribe and Racialised Neoliberal Capitalism in India - Jens Lerche18. Beyond Eurocentrism: Rethinking Global Capitalism Through ‘Tropical Marxism’ - Kolja LindnerConclusion: Mode of Production as a Social History of the Many - Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi

"This remarkable volume offers a bold and necessary rethinking of the 'mode of production' through the prisms of domestic and social reproduction, racial capitalism, and decolonial critique. By weaving together rigorous theoretical inquiry with rich historical analysis, the editors and contributors illuminate the capitalist mode of production as a variegated and contested process—one that cannot be understood without grappling with the intertwined dynamics of exploitation and racialisation. Refusing both reductive economism and Eurocentric narratives, this collection brings together an impressive range of voices—Federici, Mezzadri, Banaji, van der Linden, and others—to reopen critical debates and chart new directions in radical political economy. An indispensable resource for scholars and students seeking to understand capitalism in all its fractured, global complexity", Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy.