Theory As History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (Historical Materialism)

Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

The 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.