The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern JapanIn The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kz, whose investigations into the development of capitalism and the commodification of labor power are essential for rethinking