Theory As History : Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation

Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeThe essays collected herein deal with the Marxist notion of a "mode of production," the emergence of medieval relations of production, the origins of capitalism, the dichotomy between free and unfree labor, and essays in agrarian history. They demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism.