"Raju J Das has produced the much-needed book all Marxists hoped one of their number would someday provide, uniting in a well-argued and theoretically rigorous manner two positions that have tended to drift apart: what in political and economic terms Marxism is currently seen to involve, and what Marx and Lenin themselves said it must be. By doing so, Das confirms two things: both the resilience of Marxist scholarship, and also that he himself is in the vanguard of this process." – Tom Brass, formerly of SPS, Cambridge University, and Editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

"Raju Das has produced an excellent and wide-ranging conspectus of Marxist political economy, one based on a careful and incisive reading of the “classical” works of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin on the subject as well as a critical survey of the ideas of more recent Marxist thinkers. As Das explains so well, Marx and Lenin didn’t answer all the questions currently posed about our century’s decaying capitalist order; but they did lay an imperishable foundation for answering them." – Murray Smith, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brock University, Canada.