The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

Kevin B Anderson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verso Books

Publishing:18th Mar '25

£19.99

This title is due to be published on 18th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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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 traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the years 1869-82, he turns his attention to colonialism, agrarian Russia and India, Indigenous societies, and gender. These texts, some of them only now being published, evidence a change of perspective, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. Anderson's book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat being touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups, peasant communes, and Indigenous communist groups, in many of which women held great social power.

Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on India, Ireland, Algeria, and Latin America. This book will appeal to those concerned with the critique of Eurocentrism, racial domination, and gender subordination, but equally to those focusing on capital and class. For as Anderson shows, the late Marx transcended these boundaries as he elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities. In all these ways, the visionary writings of the late Marx speak to us today.

Abbreviations
Introduction: Contours of the Late Marx

1. Communal Social Formations and Their Vicissitudes
2. Temporalities and Geographies of Gender, Kinship, and Women’s Empowerment
3. Multilinear Concepts of Historical and Social Development
4. Colonialism and Resistance
5. Rome, India, and Russia: Three Agrarian Societies in Flux
6. New Concepts of Revolutionary Change and of Alternatives to Capitalism

ISBN: 9781804296875

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 400g

288 pages