Overview
- 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)
Keywords
- Marx and Postcolonialism
- Postcolonialism
- Accumulation
- Living Labour
- Capital
- Supply Chains
- Theories of Postcolonial Economy
- Dual Power
- Lenin
- Workers' struggles
- Class struggle
- Revolution
- Populism
- Working Class
- Historical Immanence
- Postcolonial political subject
- Postcolonial condition
- Postcolonial Labour
- Postcolonial capital
- Production of knowledge
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
Authors: Ranabir Samaddar
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63287-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63286-5Published: 04 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87518-7Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63287-2Published: 07 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 319
Topics: International Political Economy, Postcolonial Philosophy, Political Philosophy