Theories for Radical Change makes a strong case for the primacy of economic over extra-economic processes, and of production and production relations over other aspects of the economic realm.

The book explores how production relations of capitalism and imperialism fetter the development of the productive forces of nature and wage-labor and hinder the state’s ability to solve the problems produced by capitalism. It covers a wide range of political-economic issues including commodity production, class differentiation, fundamental traits of capitalist production (including its uneven and combined development), capitalist state, and the impoverishment of common people and their struggle against the capitalist mode of production.

Raju Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy. His recent books include: Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Brill, 2017) and Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State (Routledge, 2022).