ABSTRACT
Anjan Chakrabarti arid Stephen Cullenberg's Transition and Development in India focuses on the ways in which essentialism, in its many forms, haunts development debates and hinders them from proceeding to a different economic imaginary. For Chakrabarti and Cullenberg, the distinction between class and power is important in any attempt to analyze transition and development in order to understand what kinds of class processes Marxists and others must work toward proliferating in any actual circumstance or conjuncture. Losing class as a key component of an analysis means losing the ability to engage in political struggles that shape the way we produce, appropriate, and distribute surplus by and through ethical criteria that promote more "just" exploitative class processes. Chakrabarti and Cullenberg theorize both an expanded communism and an expanded communist subjectivity.
