This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth. In different contributions to this volume, Kolja Lindner pleads for a differentiated assessment of the whole of Marx’s work, including less known manuscripts, and a theoretical reconstruction of various elements that have come into the focus of postcolonial critique: ethnocentrism, Orientalism, false universalism and the oblivion of modernity’s global entanglement. Against this background, two opportunities simultaneously arise: Marx’s Eurocentrism can be deconstructed and his growing awareness of global developments and cosmopolitan struggles established
Author(s): Lindner, Kolja
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism reflexions
Pages: 186
Tags: Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism reflexions
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Introduction
References
Contents
Marx’s Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Studies and Marx Scholarship
1 The Concept of Eurocentrism
2 Marx’s 1853 Essays on India
3 Marx’s Eurocentric Sources: François Bernier
4 India vs. Ireland: The Beginnings of Marx’s Turn from Eurocentrism
5 Orientalist Themes in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
6 The Accelerating Turn from Eurocentrism in Marx’s Late Work
6.1 Marx’s Excerpts from 1879 On
6.2 Marx’s Exchanges with Revolutionary Movements in Russia
7 Marx Studies and Postcolonialism—Shaken, Not Stirred
References
Kolja Lindner and Urs Lindner: How Marx Got Rid of Historical Materialism
1 Historical Materialism in Marx’s Work
1.1 What Is Historical Materialism?
1.2 The Development of Marx’s Work
2 The Problems of Historical Materialism
2.1 Functionalist Teleology
2.2 Anti-Ethics
2.3 Eurocentrism
3 The Overcoming of Historical Materialism
3.1 Historical Social Science
3.2 Ethics Beyond Theodicy
3.3 Cosmopolitan Communism
4 Conclusion
References
Late Marx Beyond Marxism: Contingency, Critique of Domination and Radical Democracy
1 History and Progress
2 Forms of Domination
3 Radical Democracy
4 Sources of Marx’s Thought
References
Global Challenges: Marxism, Eurocentrism and Pluralism in the Twenty-First Century
1 Eurocentrism in Marx’s Work
2 Disarticulation of Challenges from Postcolonialism and Global History
2.1 Sources
2.2 The Concept of Historical Progress
2.3 Entanglement
3 Conclusion
References
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Marx: Vivek Chibber’s Marxism
1 Which Postcolonialism?
2 Capitalism’s Universalizing Drive
2.1 No Conventional Story?
2.2 Dominance Without Hegemony
2.3 Labour Under Global Capitalism
3 Which Marxism?
4 The Challenges of Self-Criticism and Pluralism
References
Marx, Universalism and the Global South: A Discussion Between Andrea Komlosy, Elena Louisa Lange, Kolja Lindner, Matthias Middell and Aditya Nigam
1 Eurocentrism
2 Capitalism in the Global South
3 Labour in a Global Perspective
4 Colonialism
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