KRADER, Lawrence. The Asiatic Mode of Production. Sources, Development, and Critique in the Writings of Karl Marx. Assen: The Netherlands. 1975.
8vo. Original cloth with dust-wrappers; pp. xiii, 454; near-fine.
Very uncommon first edition. Lawrence Krader, born in 1919 in New York to European Jewish immigrant parents Krader studied before the War with luminaries such as Alfred Tarski (linguistics) Rudolf Carnap (logic) or Franz Boas (ethnology). After the War he was in close contact with the German Marxists Karl Korsch and Karl Wittvogel. As a socialist he examined how far Marx can be applied to Asian Societies and their mode of production and how far Marxism has to be relativized. An important contribution to the analysis of Chinese and other Asian economies.
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