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Decolonizing Dialectics

By George Ciccariello-Maher

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2017
ISBN
0822362430, 9780822362432
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
539 kB (551736 bytes)
Series
Radical Américas
Edition
Reprint
Pages
256\0
Time added
2018-04-17 06:27:18
History & Surveys;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sci

Description

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics George Ciccariello-Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.

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