ABSTRACT
Policy had to address riot only the pressing issue of poverty, but also the outrage of different forms of class exploitation suffered by many of these same poor rural and urban populations. That strategy involves a Marxian policy focused on two different struggles as set forth in the book's title: a transition from a class-exploitative society to one without class exploitation, and development of wealth to secure the needs of the poorest and often most neglected segments of rural and urban populations. This transitional goal adds to the social agenda over the twenty-first century that which Marx gave us in the nineteenth—namely, reorganizing society's enterprises and households to ensure that those who collectively produce surplus labor also are its first appropriators and distributors. One of the more interesting aspects of their critique stems from its examination of a history of thought in India that was focused on the Marxian concept of modes of production.
