Selected Essays of Nigel Harris : From National Liberation to Globalisation

Nigel Harris's Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalisation presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. It starts off with a new interview in which Harris reflects on the development of his thought over the more than half a century separating the death of Stalin from the latest developments in globalisation and capitalist restructuring. The collected essays deal with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration, and offer an ample selection from Harris's political journalism. Together the work constitutes at once a personal journey through the history of the British revolutionary left and a trenchant commentary on some of the most fundamental problems facing a renewed Marxist theory. ‎Contents 8 ‎Introduction. An Interview with Nigel Harris 12 ‎Part 1. Imperialism and the World Order 24 ‎Chapter 1.1. Imperialism Today 26 ‎Chapter 1.2. How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy 69 ‎Chapter 1.3. Can the West Survive? 74 ‎Chapter 1.4. On Economic Globalisation, Neo-liberalism and the Nature of the Period 87 ‎Part 2. The State and Economic Development 96 ‎Chapter 2.1. The ‘Scissors Crisis’ in India and China 98 ‎Chapter 2.2. Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation 118 ‎Chapter 2.3. The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry 125 ‎Chapter 2.4. China: Decentralisation and Development 142 ‎Chapter 2.5. New Bourgeoisies? 154 ‎Chapter 2.6. Nationalism and Development 171 ‎Chapter 2.7. The War-Making State and Privatisation (Harris and Lockwood) 185 ‎Chapter 2.8. The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’ 223 ‎Part 3. Issues in Political Economy 236 ‎Chapter 3.1. Food, Development and Crisis 238 ‎Chapter 3.2. Deindustrialisation 249 ‎Chapter 3.3. The Road from 1910 261 ‎Chapter 3.4. Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History 277 ‎Part 4. Migration 286 ‎Chapter 4.1. The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour 288 ‎Chapter 4.2. The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People 320 ‎Chapter 4.3. Immigration and State Power 338 ‎Chapter 4.4. The Freedom to Move 347 ‎Part 5. Journalism and Shorter Pieces 362 ‎Chapter 5.1. Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill 364 ‎Chapter 5.2. Nicaragua 1979 373 ‎Chapter 5.3. Vietnam: Old Men Remember 378 ‎Chapter 5.4. Teheran Diary 383 ‎Chapter 5.5. Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant 387 ‎Chapter 5.6. Two Notes on a Visit to the United States (January 1976) 394 ‎Chapter 5.7. Rip Van Winkle in China 403 ‎Chapter 5.8. Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid! 407 ‎Chapter 5.9. Korea’s New Revolution 412 ‎Chapter 5.10. Structural Adjustment in Romania 415 ‎Chapter 5.11. Forms of Compulsion 425 ‎Chapter 5.12. Economic Fusion, Political Fission 432 ‎Chapter 5.13. Mexico’s Tiananmen Square 437 ‎Chapter 5.14. Peru: Emerging from Crisis 443 ‎Chapter 5.15. Vietnam: Back at the Beginning 452 ‎Chapter 5.16. Lebanon: There is Life after Death 458 ‎Chapter 5.17. Moscow’s Migrants 470 ‎Chapter 5.18. Indonesia’s Year of Anniversaries 473 ‎Chapter 5.19. The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years On 476 ‎Bibliography of Nigel Harris’s Writings 480 ‎References 509 ‎Index 527 Nigel Harris?s 'Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalization' presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. Beginning with a new interview in which Harris reflects on the development of his thought over the more than half a century separating the death of Stalin from the latest developments in globalisation and capitalist restructuring, the volume collects essays dealing with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration, as well as an ample selection from Harris?s political journalism. Together the work constitutes at once a personal journey through the history of the British revolutionary left and a trenchant commentary on some of the most fundamental problems facing a renewed Marxist theory