Articles by Arun Bose

Possibility of Peaceful Revolution and Role of Revolutionary Terrorism Arun Bose RUSTAM SINGH'S 'Status of Violence in Marx's Theory of Revolution' (January 28) will, it is hoped, produce a cascade of comments. It is timely, meticulous and masterly. However, in trying to grasp many nettles firmly, some have slipped through his fingers. I would like to put the spotlight on two.

Some Implications for Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Social Classes, the State and Civil Societies Arun Bose Sraffa's models of a surplus-generating and surplus-appropriating capitalist economy, first published in 1960, correct and complete Marx's own models of a capitalist economy. They correct Marx's models in two essential aspects

Marxian Theory of Social Transformations: A Reconstruction Arun Bose Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism by Samir Amin; Oxford University Press, Delhi,

Arun Bose RANJIT SAU's Reply (September 8) to iny Note (July 21) on his concept of unequal exchange of labour in international trade fails to justify what he had written in his book (1978). In his book he had produced nothing more than a curiousum, or a freakish special case, based on highly restrictive assumptions, which cannot be dropped without killing the result. His attempt in his Reply to claim that this is not so is unconvincing, and has only made matters worse.

Alienation Arun Bose Marx on Alienation by Puthepeedikail Mathew John; Minerva Associates, Calcutta, 1976; pp xv + 267, Rs 48.
interest in a number of novel themes has made intellectuals from many disciplines take a serious "interest in Marxian theory as being well-equipped to handle them. Some of these themes are: capitalist imperialism (with especial attention paid to its racist aspects), as also socialist 'social imperialism'; the 'class struggle' as the motive force of history (in all socio-economic formations, including the socialists); the question of 'exploitation' under capitalism (about which a Fundamental Marxian Theorem has been formulated by mathematical economists); the insidious role of 'apologetics' in various disciplines, which should make intellectuals adopt the methodological principle of being suspicious of each other's motives in order to get at the truth.