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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300524303321

Autore

Samaddar Ranabir

Titolo

Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age [[electronic resource] /] / by Ranabir Samaddar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-63287-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 319 p.)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

335.43

Soggetti

International economic relations

Philosophy

Postcolonialism

Political science - Philosophy

International Political Economy’

Postcolonial Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Postcolonial Condition as a Strategic Concept for Critiquing this World -- 2. The Post-colonial Predicament -- 3. Post-Colonial Dynamics of Accumulation -- 4. Living Labour I: Transit Labour, Living Labour and the Labour of Life -- 5. Living Labour II: Logistics, Migration, and Labour in the Postcolony -- 6. Theories of Postcolonial Economy -- 7. The Problematic of Dual Power -- 8. The Problematic of People -- 9. The Fragmented Subject and a Theory of Leadership -- 10. Rebuilding the Theory of Crisis as a Postcolonial Task. .

Sommario/riassunto

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.