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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.

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. -- Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
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. -- Michael Löwy, author of The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

ISBN: 9781804296875

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 400g

288 pages