East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories

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East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories
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Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marxism, space, time and East Asia
	Perspectives of capital: universality, particularity and temporality
	Trajectories of Marxisms in Japan, China and Korea
PART I: Perspectives of capital: universality, particularity
and temporality
Chapter 1: Deprovincializing Marx: reflections on a cultural dominant
	The shadow of history
	Time and history
	Toward world history
	Notes
Chapter 2: Marx, temporality and modernity
	Toward a renewed encounter with Marx
	Theoretical implications of global transformations
	Temporality and labor
	Contradiction and totality
	Social form and subjectivity
	Concluding considerations
	Notes
Chapter 3: Two kinds of new poor and their future: the decline and reconfiguration of class politics and the politics of the new poor
	The new poor and the birth of the new workers
	An indeterminate subject: migrant workers, the working class or new workers?
	Decreasing employment time, protecting legal rights and political justice
	Notes
Chapter 4: On the simultaneous world revolution
	Counter-movements against the state
	Kant’s “Eternal Peace”
	Kant and Hegel
	The gift and perpetual peace
	The federation of nations as world-system
	Notes
PART II: Trajectories of Marxisms in Japan, China and Korea
Chapter 5: Historical difference and the question of East-Asian Marxism
	The question of “East-Asian Marxism”
	“Uneasy coexistence”: Japanese studies and the trope of adaptation
	Chakrabarty and the politics of “provincialization”
	Historical difference and the question of East-Asian Marxism(s)
	Notes
Chapter 6: Value without fetish: problematizing Uno Kōzō’s reading of the
value form
	What’s labor got to do with it?
	The method and the object of the Critique of Political Economy
	Uno’s understanding of the value form and Kuruma’s reply
	Recapitulating value abstraction as fetish
	Final prospects: Karatani Kōjin as an heir to Uno’s emphasis on exchange
	Notes
Chapter 7: Compradors: the mediating middle of capitalism in
twentieth-century China and the world
	The comprador in theory
	Wang Yanan’s theory of bureaucratic capitalism and the comprador in 1930s and 1940s China
	The comprador as mediating middle of global capitalism
	Notes
Chapter 8: “A vast crucible of electric flame”: Shanghai and the
emergence of Chinese Marxism
	The question of Soviet influence
	Shanghai: the face of the “old society”
	The advent of the masses
	Notes
Chapter 9: Paradoxical routes of the sinification of Marxism: materialist dialectic and immanent critique
	The question of the sinification of Marxism
	A project of decolonization or a paradoxical-pathological turn?
	One divides into two and Mao’s theory of contradiction
	The struggle between Confucianism and Legalism and its return
	Conclusion: materialist dialectic as immanent critique
	Notes
Chapter 10: The formation and the limits of the People’s Democracy: a critical history of contemporary South Korean Marxism
	Actuality of Marxism in the here and now
	PD as a critical Marxist tradition in Korea
	The origin of the PD: the 1987 conjuncture
	Issues around the differentiation of the PD: heterogeneous coalition and accompanying mutual deficiency
	Internal weakness of the PD and repeated pragmatic coalitions
	Is anti-capitalist politics possible? Aporia and actuality of the PD
	Notes
Chapter 11: Imagining Asia and the Chinese Revolution: Takeuchi Yoshimi
and his transnational afterlives
	Takeuchi Yoshimi: nothingness, modernity and primordial Maoism
	Kuan-Hsing Chen: antinomies of base entities and civil society
	Wang Hui: Maoism as method
	Conclusion: rethinking the possibility of a post-capitalist future
	Notes
Bibliography
Index