ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the convergence and divergence of the Marxism of the 21st century and decolonisation of the 21st century. Referencing the work of Harold Wolpe (1980) on the notion of articulated mode of production, Mahmood Mamdani (2013) on ‘indirect rule’ and Stuart Hall (1980), it argues that, while both political visions have met the goals of national liberation with varying degrees of success throughout modern history, they are both afflicted with innate deficiencies that render each on its own incommensurate to the political imperatives of radical liberation agenda capable of transforming wholesale relations of domination. Some have argued that ‘the Marxist political vision has collapsed…’ (Neocosmos, 2001; Foreword), while Fanon (1963) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1986; 2009), among others, see decolonisation as an incomplete historical project in terms of economic and cultural liberation. Grounded in these critiques of the two political visions, this analysis argues for a consolidation of the two visions’ core preoccupations into hybridised, synthetic and novel forms designedly responsive to the imperatives of liberation in the 21st century.
