ABSTRACT
The diverse economies framework developed by Gibson-Graham, Resnick and Wolff, and members of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis marks an important break from classical Marxism. It addresses the teleology and economic determinism of previous frameworks by breaking from capitalocentrism, and thus has the potential to avoid the developmental modernism of previous Marxist frameworks. However, this chapter argues that the diverse economies framework retains the residues of classical Marxism’s eurocentrism in two ways: first, in the way it classifies processes inside a social totality, and second, in the way it classifies forms of the class process. The chapter ends by suggesting revisions to the framework to create a postcolonial Marxist framework.
