Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times?
1 The Vanishing
2 The Banishment
3 Making a Difference?
4 The Shrewd Scholar?
5 Something They Have Forgotten?
6 Themes
Part 1: Revolutionary/Counter-revolutionary Practice/Theory
1 Revolution in Practice
1 Introduction: Revolution, or Reform (and Counter-revolution)
2 Educate them to Revolt
3 The Greatest of All Proprietors
4 Desperation and Vengeance
5 As the Part to the Whole
6 Conclusion
2 Revolution in Theory
1 Revolution and/as Modernity
2 To the Barricades?
3 Half the Voters Plus One?
4 Confused Chatter and Legislative Obstruction
5 Modernity and/as Bourgeois Democracy
6 Conclusion
3 Refusing Revolution, Empowering Counter-Revolution
1 Introduction: To the Barricades?
2 What History Taught Us
3 The Nation's Great Concerns
4 The Balance of Class Power?
5 To the Barricades
6 The World We/(They) Have Lost
7 A (Marxist) Warning from History
8 Conclusion
Part 2: Other Marxisms, Other Priorities/Identities
4 The (Revolutionary) Path Not Taken
1 Introduction: Promoting Capitalism, Not Socialism
2 Laissez-faire Discourse-for
3 In the Footsteps of Laissez-faire
4 Capitalism - or Socialism?
5 The Path Not Taken
6 Conclusion
5 Avoiding Revolution: A Return to Patronage
1 Introduction: From Periphery to the (Academic) Core
2 Empiricism, Patronage and Subsistence
3 Personal Tie of Affection?
4 Two Concepts, or One?
5 A Caring State...
6 ...or Permanent Revolution
7 Conclusion
6 Misunderstanding Revolution: (Re-) Defining Coercion?
1 Introduction: A Necessary Journey?
2 The Debate
3 The Debate Transcended?
4 Problems with Theory
5 Butterfly Collecting
6 Conclusion
7 Other Priorities, Other Identities: Unmasking the Subaltern
1 Introduction: (Armchair) Generals Go to War
2 Subaltern Conquests
3 Nationalist Appropriation I: Cambridge and England
4 Nationalist Appropriation II: Delhi and India
5 Critique of a Critique
6 Difference and Sameness
7 &'A reiteration of the already said'
8 Conclusion
Part 3: Alternatives to Revolution?
8 Betraying Revolution (Again)
1 Introduction: Revolutionary Socialism as the Fifth Horseman
2 Peasants, Left and Right
3 A Plan of Campaign?
4 Power Wanting, But Wanting Power?
5 Resistance, Not Revolution
6 Conclusion
9 Viva la Revolución? Eric Hobsbawm on Peasants
1 Introduction: A Time There Was …
2 Big in Brazil
3 Hobsbawm and Feudalism
4 Hobsbawm and the hacienda System
5 Hobsbawm and Capitalism
6 Hobsbawm and Marxism
7 Outside Latin America
8 Conclusion
10 Marxism, or Postmodern Precursor? John Berger on Peasants
1 Introduction: Holy Humble Peasants?
2 No Country for Old Peasants
3 Migrants, Gender, Money
4 Different Stories, Same Themes
5 Looking, But Seeing?
6 Too Much History, Too Many Lives
7 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
