The Marx Brothers:Wallerstein, Chakrabarty, and Appadurai in Conversation
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- Introduction
- Identifying units of analysis
- Internalizing-via-contradiction
- Marxist critics like Chakrabarty and Wallerstein
- Historians and the labor of abstracting
- Rethinking labor and production
- Universal aspirations
- Conclusion: The end of history (one)
- Works cited
Abstract
The anthropological study of capitalism is rendered difficult by the inaccessibility of capitalist subjects as informants, the political legacy of marxist and socialist movements, and the continuing disagreement over the origins and productions of capitalism, among other things. However, there are a great many texts that cover the theoretical ground needed to evaluate the competing claims about political economies under conditions of capitalism. Three such texts are Immanuel wallerstein's The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System, Dipesh chakrabarty's Two Histories of Capital, and Arjun appadurai's The Social Life of Things. This paper puts these texts in conversation to explore some of the problems encountered when we try to specify the reach of capitalism and commodities around the world.
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