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Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

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Authors:
  1. Ranabir Samaddar

    1. Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India

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  • Presents the very first amalgamation of two key and related areas of study: Marxism and Post-Colonialism
  • Provides a close reading of Marx based on sources, notes, and references
  • Avoids the usual doctrinaire controversies surrounding Marx's works and focuses on what has been relevant for the postcolonial context, which the book argues is a global context

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Postcolonial Condition as a Strategic Concept for Critiquing This World

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    Pages 1-30

  3. The Postcolonial Predicament

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    Pages 31-57

  4. Postcolonial Dynamics of Accumulation

    • Ranabir Samaddar
    Pages 59-87

  5. Living Labour I: Reproduction of Life and Labour

    • Ranabir Samaddar
    Pages 89-115

  6. Living Labour II: Logistics, Migration, and Labour

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    Pages 117-144

  7. Theories of Postcolonial Economy

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    Pages 145-174

  8. The Problematic of Dual Power

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    Pages 175-202

  9. The Problematic of People

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    Pages 203-232

  10. The Fragmented Subject and a Theory of Leadership

    • Ranabir Samaddar
    Pages 233-260

  11. Rebuilding the Theory of Crisis as a Postcolonial Task

    • Ranabir Samaddar
    Pages 261-290

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 291-319
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About this book

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. Those who study Marx, particularly in the West, often lack an understanding of post-colonial realities; conversely, however, those who fashion post-colonial theory often have an inadequate understanding of Marx. Many think that Marx is not relevant to critique postcolonial realities and the legacy of Marx seldom reaches the post-colonial countries directly. This work will read Marx in the contemporary post-colonial condition and elaborate the current dynamics of post-colonial capitalism. It does this by analysing contemporary post-colonial history and politics in the framework of inter-relations between the three categories of class, people, and postcolonial transformation. Examining the structure of power in postcolonial countries and revisiting the revolutionary theory of dual power in that context, it appreciates and explains the transformative potentialities of Marx in relation to post-colonial condition. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India

    Ranabir Samaddar

About the author

Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair of the Calcutta Research Group, IN, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has pioneered peace studies programmes in South Asia. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.   



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