Paperback
+ free ebook
Sale price
$39.95
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads:Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
-
Preorder -
Ebook
Sale price $13.99Preorder
The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism.
In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of perspective, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows, the late Marx elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities.
Reviews
Imperialism persists in the 21st century. Marx's last endeavors to overcome his Eurocentrism give an invaluable lesson to today's struggles against ongoing settler colonialism.
Kevin Anderson's brilliant essay on Late Marx, a sequel to his path-breaking Marx at the Margins, examines his writings and notebooks from 1869 to 1882, explaining why Marx came to the conclusion that revolutionary change would start from the periphery - Ireland and Russia - before arriving to the core, Western Europe. Well argued, and richly documented, this insightful new book by Kevin Anderson substantially renews the reflection on Marx's revolutionary views.
Continuing his earlier work on Marx, Kevin B. Anderson in Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads brings to life and to today's reader the "Third Marx": after the Young Marx, a Hegelian philosopher and the mature Marx, a political economist, we can now see the late Marx grappling with colonialism, globalization, various forms of landed property, and gradually questioning his own earlier Eurocentrism. This Third Marx, while the least well-known, may be the closest to our modern sensibilities and interests