Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Preface XII
5. Acknowledgments XXV
6. Part I. Foundations
7. Introduction. Webs of Life versus Webs of Meaning: Or How I Became a Marxist Anthropologist 1
8. Chapter 1. No Outside? Then What? For a Dialectical Value Regime 40
9. Part II. Living Labor, Value, and Worthlessness
10. Chapter 2. “Worthless Poles” and other Postsocialist Devaluations: Conversations with a Polish Populist 61
11. Chapter 3. “It is My History and It is Worthless”: Gender and the Making of Philipsism, the Netherlands 96
12. Chapter 4. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: Two Stories and a Marxian Reflection 125
13. Part III. The Non-Surprise of the Populist Right
14. Chapter 5. Theory from the East: Class without Class and the Making of the Illiberal Right in Eastern Europe 147
15. Chapter 6. Double Devaluations: The Making of the Populist Right in the Global North 176
16. Part IV. Global Middle-Classness: Living and Dreaming
17. Chapter 7. “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen”: In the Romanian Bubble of Outsourced Creativity Coauthored with Oana Mateescu 205
18. Chapter 8. The “Global Middle Class”: A Seductive Empty Signifier 236
19. Part V. Finance and Hegemonic Decline
20. Chapter 9. Financialization and the Capitalist Moment: Marx versus Weber in the Anthropology of Global Systems 267
21. Chapter 10. Two Theories of Money: A Historical Anthropology of the State–Finance Nexus for Present Purposes 285
22. Part VI. Polemics for a Reason
23. Chapter 11. Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the Centennial of the Russian Revolution 325
24. Chapter 12. The Labor Theory of Value and the Value Theory of Labor 352
25. Epilogue. Why I Will Not Make It as a Moral Anthropologist 375
26. Index 385