The Late Marxs Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

by Kevin B. Anderson

Overview

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 went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of perspective, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows, the late Marx elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804296875
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kevin B. Anderson is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with courtesy appointments in Feminist Studies and Political Science. He is the author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary) and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. He is also an editor of the forthcoming English edition of the late Marx’s notebooks on non-Western and precapitalist societies.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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