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  1. Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique.Samuel Knafo & Benno Teschke - 2020 - Historical Materialism 29 (3):54-83.
    Marxism has often been associated with two different legacies. The first rests on a strong exposition and critique of the logic of capitalism, grounded in a systematic analysis of the laws of motion of capitalism as a system. The second legacy refers to a strong historicist perspective grounded in a conception of social relations that emphasises the centrality of power and social conflict to the analysis of history. This article challenges the prominence of structural accounts of capitalism by showing how (...)
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  • Capital without wage-labour: Marx’s modes of subsumption revisited.Nicholas Vrousalis - 2018 - Economics and Philosophy 34 (3):411-438.
    :This paper argues that capitalist social relations do not presuppose wage-labour. The paper defends a functional definition of the capitalist relations of production, in terms of what Marx calls the ’subsumption of labour by capital’. I argue that there are at least four modes of subsumption, one transitional to and one transitional from the capitalist mode of production. Unlike the capitalist mode of production, capitalist relations of production are compatible with the absence of a labour market, and even with the (...)
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  • Putting Theory to Work.Jairus Banaji - 2013 - Historical Materialism 21 (4):129-143.
    This reply defends the need for a specifically materialist historiography of modes of production other than capitalism; argues that Marxists should see history as being driven by the state as much as it is by classes; defends the scientific value of the category ‘merchant capitalism’; and explains why Marx came around to seeing the slave plantations as part of ‘total capital’. It concludes by suggesting both that Marx allowed for different levels of determination when thinking about the origins of capitalism, (...)
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  • Unfree Labour and Value Productivity: Challenges for the Marxian Labour Theory of Value.Bryan Parkhurst - 2022 - Historical Materialism 31 (1):191-230.
    This paper explores the question: does unfree labour produce value? The paper does not answer the question. Rather, it contends that, no matter how Marxists answer the question, they end up either (1) relinquishing the view that labour is the only source of value or (2) appealing to an apparently bogus distinction in order to hang on to the view. Both of these alternatives will be unacceptable to the orthodox Marxian economist. For the choice is between jettisoning the labour theory (...)
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  • Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism.Maïa Pal - 2021 - Historical Materialism 29 (3):33-53.
    This introduction presents the symposium on Sam Knafo and Benno Teschke’s article in Historical Materialism, ‘Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique’ (2021). It briefly summarises the foundations of Political Marxism, discusses the broader implications of the debate raised by Knafo and Teschke for questions of collective knowledge-production and methods in Marxist historiography, and outlines the seven contributions of the symposium. The introduction concludes by tracing, through the evolution of debates in Political Marxism and the (...)
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  • On ‘The Problem with Brenner’: The Paradox of Agency and the Heresy of Reification.Michael Andrew Žmolek - 2021 - Historical Materialism 29 (3):125-152.
    Knafo and Teschke’s surprisingly polemical critique of Brenner’s work is derived from earlier work which applies the same critique arising out of the agency/structure debate in International Relations theory. Casting Brenner’s work as increasingly structuralist over time and therefore increasingly prone to reify social relations, thereby suppressing or downplaying the role of agency, Knafo and Teschke ask their readers to take such claims at face value, offering no close textual reading of Brenner’s work. Focusing almost entirely on method rather than (...)
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  • The State and the Market in Capitalism: frères ennemis?Eric Mielants - 2018 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 285 (3):267-278.
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  • Mediating Capitalism’s ‘Rules of Reproduction’ with Historical Agency.Jessica Evans - 2021 - Historical Materialism 29 (3):153-174.
    This article responds to Samuel Knafo and Benno Teschke’s recent critique of Political Marxism and their proposal for an alternative, ‘radical agency-centred’ historicism. While sympathetic to the critiques raised by the authors, I am less convinced by the conclusions they reach. Rather than abandon Political Marxism altogether, I argue that there remains much of value in the tradition. Through an analysis of the differential path of capitalist development in settler-colonial Canada, I suggest that bringing the methodological insights of Uneven and (...)
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  • Debating Modes of Production and Forms of Exploitation: Introduction to the Symposium on Jairus Banaji’s Theory as History.Liam Campling - 2013 - Historical Materialism 21 (4):3-10.
    Theory as History, which was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2011, collects together several of Jairus Banaji’s essays published over the course of 30 years. This symposium comprises four essays engaging with different aspects of the powerful and provocative contributions in Theory as History, as well as an essay in response by Banaji. The Editorial Introduction sketches elements of Banaji’s work and highlights some of the main arguments advanced in the symposium.
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