Social Formations in Colonial India, 1880–1950

Every historical age in which the production and reproduction of social relations take shape has its specificities. There is a position that over the course of capitalist progression, pre-existing social forms would evolve into capitalist forms (MECW, Vol. 6, 1976: 486–87; Capital, Vol. I, 1990: 915; Mandel, I, 1971: 177). However, there is another position that emphasises the compatibility of pre-capitalist and capitalist social formations (scholars like Luxemburg argue for the latter position).