This co-edited volume revisits the once-thriving historical materialist debate on the mode of production. It interrogates the conceptualisation of mode of production by pursuing three interrelated objectives: (I) to account for the complexity of capitalism in order to challenge its dominant formalist understandings; (II) to trace its global emergence and consolidation in order to contest Eurocentric narratives; and (III) to explore its diverse and intersecting forms of oppression, thereby moving beyond reductive and abstract understandings of class exploitation and emancipation. To achieve these objectives, this volume engages with key debates within Marxist historiography, including the mode of production debate, the domestic labour debate, discussions on race and colonialism and critiques of Eurocentrism within Marxism. The volume is structured into three thematic parts. The first part, Re-entering the Hidden Abodes of Production, re-examines the evolution and application of the concept of the mode of production. The second part, Excavating the Intersections of Production and Reproduction, explores the central role of domestic labour and social reproduction in the concept of the mode of production. In the third section, Disrupting Eurocentric Narratives: The Interiorities of Racism, Colonialism and Capitalism, the contributors challenge traditional Marxist perspectives by rejecting the treatment of racism as a pre-capitalist phenomenon that lacks structural connections to the logic of capital, criticizing the view that (settler) colonialism is distinct from capitalism and opposing the idea that plantation slavery and slave labour are separate from the process of capital accumulation.

Co-edited with Jokubas Salyga, the volume features contributions from Jairus Banaji, Silvia Federici, Marcel van der Linden, Andreas Bieler, Alessandra Mezzadri, Rohini Hensman, Sébastien Rioux, Andy Higginbottom, Tony Burns, Abigail Bakan, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Paolo Tedesco, Jens Lerche, Sai Englert, Leonardo Marques, Waldomiro Lourenço, and Kolja Linder.