ABSTRACT

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism, the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation traditions.

Featuring leading and young scholars and activists, this book is a practical scholarly intervention that shows how democratic Marxism and decoloniality might converge to provoke planetary decolonization in the 21st century. At the centre of this process, enabled by both increasing human entanglements and the resilience of racism, the volume's contributors analyse converging forces of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy, anti-sexism, Indigenous People’s movements, eco-feminist formations, and intellectual movements levelled against Eurocentrism.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and intellectuals interested in Marxism, decolonization, and transnational activism.

chapter 1|27 pages

Introduction

Marxism and decolonization in the 21st century

part I|119 pages

Marxist and decolonial theories

chapter 2|18 pages

The philosophy of liberation

Troubling the Marxism of the 21st century in Africa

chapter 3|19 pages

The limits of postcolonial critique of Marxism

A defence of radical universalism

chapter 4|21 pages

From Karl Marx to Kwame Nkrumah

Towards a decolonial political economy

chapter 5|20 pages

Triple internationalism

Imperialism, Marxism, and decolonization

part II|115 pages

Marxist and decolonial praxis

chapter 8|20 pages

Black Marxism and liberatory praxis

The contributions of Black Marxists to decolonization thought

chapter 9|15 pages

The constraints for Marxism and African revolutions

Breaking bread with Ayi Kwei Armah

chapter 10|24 pages

Ante-Marx(ism)

Biko, conquest, and Azania

chapter 12|20 pages

Racial capitalism

Marxism and decolonial politics

chapter 13|16 pages

Is Marxism clad in Eurocentric garb?

A decolonial political economy of the media

part III|112 pages

Empirical interventions: race, gender, class, culture, and land

chapter 14|14 pages

Marxism in decoloniality

A non-reductionist approach to colonial wounded-ness in the 21st century

chapter 15|24 pages

‘For what the first sight misses is the invisible’

Decolonial feminism and the representation of women in Dalit women’s writing

chapter 16|23 pages

‘Cargo-cultism’ vs. ‘everyday decoloniality’ in 21st-century India

Reflections on multiracial decolonial practices of the Anglo–Indians

chapter 17|11 pages

Economic policy-making and gender in 21st-century South Africa

A Marxist feminist look into policy

chapter 18|16 pages

Karl Marx is long dead; long live Karl Marx

Zimbabwe’s fast-tracked land reform viewed through Marxist lenses

chapter |5 pages

Postscript