Journal Articles

Das, R. J. 2025. A Theoretical Enquiry into Social and Spatial Inequalities: An Urban-regional political economy perspective (forthcoming)

Das, R. J. 2024. ‘Marx’s Grundrisse: Introduction to political economy and historical materialism’. World Review of Political Economy (forthcoming)

Das, R. J. 2024. ‘Questioning Poverty, Questions for Poverty Analysis: Towards a Basic Theoretical Framework’. World Marxist Review, Vol. 2(2), 103-126

Das, R. J. 2024. ‘The Right-Wing Attacks on the Academic Left in India'. Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 6.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘The Post-Truth Condition in Capitalist Society: A Critical Enquiry’. International Critical Thought, 13(2): 205–26.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘Post-truth Politics in India’s Right-wing Ecosystem: An Extended Critical Commentary’. International Critical Thought, 13(3): 403–28.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘Capitalism, Class Struggle and/in Academia’. Critical Sociology, 49(6): 901–22.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘Marxism and Revisionism in the World Today’. Capital & Class, 47(3): 383–406.

Das, R.J. 2023. ‘Why is Identity Politics not Conducive to Achieving Sustained Social Justice?’. Dialectical Anthropolology 47: 19–31.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘The Good and the Bad in David Harvey’s Popular Marxism’. Critical Sociology, 49(7–8): 1079–94.

Das, R. J. 2023. ‘Capital, Capitalism and Health’. Critical Sociology, 49(3): 395–414.

Das, R. J. and Latham, R. 2022. ‘Theory and Class Struggle: An Introduction to the Section’. Class, Race and Corporate Power, 10(2).

Das, R. J. 2022. ‘Politics of Love, and Love of Politics: Towards a Marxist Theory of Love’. Class, Race and Corporate Power, 10(2).

Das, R. J. 2022. ‘On The Communist Manifesto: Ideas for the Newly Radicalizing Public’. World Review of Political Economy, 13(2): 209–44.

Das, R. J. 2022. ‘Review – Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism’, E-International Relations (invited long review).

Das, R. J. 2022. ‘What is Marxist Geography Today, or what is Left of Marxist Geography?’ Human Geography, 15(1): 33–44.

Das, R. J. 2021. Educators Need to be Educated: Or, ‘Class Struggle’ in Academia. Capital & Class, 45(3): 339–46.

Das, R. J. 2020. ‘On the Urgent Need to Re-Engage Classical Marxism’. Critical Sociology, 46(7–8): 965–85.

Das, R. J. 2020. “Identity Politics: A Marxist View.” Class, Race and Corporate Power, 8(1), Article 5: 1–33.

(Based in Florida International University, Class, Race and Corporate Power is an academic open-access refereed journal).

Das, R. J. 2019. “Indian Election 2019: A Marxist Interpretation.” International Socialism: A Quarterly Review of Socialist Theory, 164.

Das, R. J. 2019. “Politics of Marx as Non-sectarian Revolutionary Class Politics: An Interpretation in the Context of the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Class, Race and Corporate Power, 7(1).

Das, R. J. 2019. “Contradictions of India’s Right-wing Government, and Growing Disenchantment.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 49(2): 313–328.

Das, R. J. and Chen, A. 2019. “Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Capitalist Violence Against Child Labour.” World Review of Political Economy, 10(2): 191–219.

Das, R. J. 2018. “Anti-materialism, Capitalism, and Violence against the Human Body: Some Preliminary Comments.” Monthly Review Online.

Das, R. J. 2018. “Fascistic Politics in India, the Left, and Lenin’s Theory of Temporary Compromise.Sanhati (an online non-academic journal from India)

Das, R. J. 2017. “David Harvey’s Theory of Uneven Geographical Development: A Marxist Critique.” Capital and Class, 41(3): 511–36.

Das, R. J. 2017. “Social Movements and State Repression in India.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 52(8): 1080–1102.

Das, R. J. 2017. “David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique.” World Review of Political Economy, 8(4): 590–616.

Das, R. J. 2015. “Critical Observations on Neoliberalism and India’s New Economic Policy.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(4): 715–26.

Das, R. J. 2014. “Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production: A Study of the Conditions of Workers in Shrimp Aquaculture.” Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 7(1): 17–34.

Das, R. J. 2013. “Capitalism and Regime Change in the (Globalizing) World of Labour.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(4): 709–23.

Das, R. J. 2013. “Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small Property Ownership in Globalizing Capitalism.Monthly Review Online.

Das, R. J. 2013. “The Relevance of Marxist Academics.” Class, Race and Corporate Power, 1(1).

Das, R. J. 2012. “From Labour Geography to Class Geography: Reasserting the Marxist Theory of Class.” Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 5(1): 19–35.

Das, R. J. 2012. “Forms of Subsumption of Labour under Capital, Class Struggle and Uneven Development.Review of Radical Political Economics, 44(2): 178–200.

Das, R. J. 2012. “Developmental Crisis and Dialectics of Protest Politics: Presenting the Absent and Absenting the Present.” Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII(6): 24–26.

Das, R. J. 2009. “Class Relations, Material Conditions, and Spaces of Class Struggle in Rural India.” Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 2(3): 52–74.

Das, R. J. 2007. “Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 34(3-4): 408–40.

Das, R. J. 2007. “Introduction: Peasant, State and Class.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 34(3-4): 351–70.

Das, R. J. 2006. “Putting Social Capital in its Place.” Capital and Class, 92: 65–92.

Das, R. J. 2005. “Rural Society, the State and Social Capital in Eastern India: A Critical Investigation.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 32(1): 48–87.

Das, R. J. 2004. “Social Capital and Poverty of Wage Labourers: Problems with the Social Capital Theory.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(1): 27–45.

Das, R. J. 2002. “The Green Revolution and Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Relation Between Technology and Society.Geoforum, 33(1): 55–72.

Das, R. J. 2001. “Class, Capitalism and Agrarian Transition: A Review and Critique of Some Recent Arguments.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 29(1): 155–74.

Das, R. J. 2001. “The Political Economy of India (A Review Article).” New Political Economy, 6(1): 103–17.

Das, R. J. 2001. “The Spatiality of Social Relations: An Indian Case Study.” The Journal of Rural Studies, 17(3): 347–362.

Das, R. J. 2000. “The State-Society Relation: The Case of an Anti-poverty Policy.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 18(6): 631–50.

Das, R. J. 1999. “Geographical Unevenness of India’s Green Revolution.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 29(2): 167–86.

Das, R. J. 1999. “Politicism and Idealism in State Theory.” Science and Society, 63(1): 97–104.

Das, R. J. 1999. “The Spatiality of Class and State Power: The Case of Indian Land Reforms.” Environment and Planning A, 31(12): 2103–26.

Klak, T. and Das, R. J. 1999. “The Underdevelopment of the Caribbean and Its Scholarship.” Latin American Research Review, 34(3): 209–24.

Das, R. J. 1998. “The Green Revolution, Agrarian Productivity and Labor.International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 22(1): 122–35.

Das, R. J. 1998. “The Social and Spatial Character of the Indian State.” Political Geography, 17(7): 787–808.

Das, R. J. 1996. “State Theories: A Critical Analysis.” Science and Society, 60(1): 27–57.

Das, R. J. 1995. “Poverty and Agrarian Social Structure—A Case-Study in Rural India.” Dialectical Anthropology, 20(2): 169–92.

Das, R. J. & Dutt, A. K. 1993. “City-size Distribution and Primate City Characteristics in India: A Temporal Analysis.” Geo-Journal, 29(2): 125–37.