Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

• Main Author: Samaddar, Ranabir (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms,
• Subjects: Political economy.; Philosophy.; Postcolonialism.; Political philosophy.; International Political Economy.; Postcolonial Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.

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 ha...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .