How Long to Read Essays on Marxism and Asia

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays on Marxism and Asia?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Essays on Marxism and Asia by Murzban Jal

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Description

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. In contrast to the infamous clash of civilisation thesis, this book argues for a humanist theory of civilisations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It claims that Parsis, despite being a migrant community, took strength from their Persian heritage and civilisation and rose to become the architects of industrial modernity in India. This book locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub- text. It then takes a phenomenological reading of caste in India and says that India is afflicted by a very strange illness called ‘silent blindness’ where humanity is silenced and blinded in front of the caste apparatus. It then analyzes how capitalism and modernity fashioned caste in the image of capitalism and how the Indian right- wing imagined its fascistic politics of race and racial superiority based on the image of caste hierarchy. The problem in India has been that the liberals could not take caste seriously so as to confront it and then annihilate this violent apartheid structure. This, the book argues, has led to the rise of fascism in India. The book concludes with positing two different strands of secularism, namely liberal or bourgeois secularism which merely separates religion and the state (but mixes these when required) and revolutionary secularism which humanises religion and politics first in order to find the human and class content in both. The chapters in this book were originally published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.

How long is Essays on Marxism and Asia?

Essays on Marxism and Asia by Murzban Jal is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays on Marxism and Asia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Essays on Marxism and Asia aloud.

What Reading Level is Essays on Marxism and Asia?

Essays on Marxism and Asia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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