Beyond Japanese Marxism and Uno KÅzÅ: Reflections on The Sublime Perversion of Capital by Gavin Walker
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This article revisits the history of Marxism in Japan and Uno KÅzÅâs method for political-economic research from the perspective of Gavin Walkerâs book, The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Walkerâs book not only introduces key debates from the history of Marxism in Japan to a contemporary and English-speaking audience. It also rethinks and develops important concepts, discourses and problematics from the history of Marxist theory in Japan that are global in character and that continue to be useful in the here and now. These include the transition from feudalism to capitalism, primitive accumulation, the production of national difference, and the âimpossibilityâ of the commodification of labour-power.
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Beyond Japanese Marxism and Uno KÅzÅ: Reflections on The Sublime Perversion of Capital by Gavin Walker
In: Historical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Ken C. Kawashima in
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Abstract
This article revisits the history of Marxism in Japan and Uno KÅzÅâs method for political-economic research from the perspective of Gavin Walkerâs book, The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Walkerâs book not only introduces key debates from the history of Marxism in Japan to a contemporary and English-speaking audience. It also rethinks and develops important concepts, discourses and problematics from the history of Marxist theory in Japan that are global in character and that continue to be useful in the here and now. These include the transition from feudalism to capitalism, primitive accumulation, the production of national difference, and the âimpossibilityâ of the commodification of labour-power.
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