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This article explores Wolf's insistence in EPHW that he was practicing 'Marxian' rather than Marxist anthropology. It presents the reasons for Wolf's distancing from 'Marxism' and discusses to what extent these remain relevant today. It then moves to offer suggestions on working more explicitly toward the 'contradictory unity of theory and practice' that characterizes any good scholarship drawing on Marx—including Wolf's. Finally, I discuss instances in my own work of trying to move within a Marxian/Marxist dialectic: the way I employed a Wolfian analysis to contribute insights of use to a broader politics of labor and formulate an immanent critique of existing Marxist practices. The article ends by presenting radical inspiration from one of my Marxist-Ambedkarite interlocutors in Kerala.

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