ABSTRACT
This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production – a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
The Amp: Sources and Formation of the Concept
part II|2 pages
The Fate of the AMP from Plekhanov to Stalin
part III|2 pages
The Wittfogel Watershed
part IV|2 pages
The Contemporary Debate on the AMP