Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century Living Theories and True Ideas Worlding Beyond the West Series

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism, the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation traditions.

Featuring leading and young scholars and activists, this book is a practical scholarly intervention that shows how democratic Marxism and decoloniality might converge to provoke planetary decolonization in the 21st century. At the centre of this process, enabled by both increasing human entanglements and the resilience of racism, the volume's contributors analyse converging forces of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy, anti-sexism, Indigenous People?s movements, eco-feminist formations, and intellectual movements levelled against Eurocentrism.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and intellectuals interested in Marxism, decolonization, and transnational activism.

The Global Contributions of Black Decolonial Marxism – A Foreword 1. Introduction: Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century Part I: Marxist and Decolonial Theories 2. The Philosophy of Liberation: Troubling the Marxism of the 21st Century in Africa 3. The Limits of Postcolonial Critique of Marxism: A Defence of Radical Universalism 4. From Karl Marx to Kwame Nkrumah: Towards a Decolonial Political Economy 5. Triple Internationalism: Imperialism, Marxism, and Decolonization 6. Marxist Theory, Decoloniality, and Black African Subjectivity 7. Convergence and Divergence of Marxism and Decolonisation of the 21st Century Part II: Marxist and Decolonial Praxis 8. Black Marxism and Liberatory Praxis: The Contributions of Black Marxists to Decolonization Thought 9. The Constraints for Marxism and African Revolutions: Breaking Bread with Ayi Kwei Armah 10. Ante-Marx(ism): Biko, Conquest, and Azania 11. Biographical Comparative Analysis of Black Power and Black Consciousness Activists: Onkgopotse and Stokely 12. Racial Capitalism: Marxism and Decolonial Politics 13. Is Marxism Clad in Eurocentric Garb? A Decolonial Political Economy of the Media Part III: Empirical Interventions: Race, Gender, Class, Culture, and Land 14. Marxism in Decoloniality: A Non-Reductionist Approach to Colonial Wounded-ness in the 21st Century 15. ‘For What the First Sight Misses is the Invisible’: Decolonial Feminism and the Representation of Women in Dalit Women’s Writing 16. ‘Cargo-Cultism’ vs. ‘Everyday Decoloniality’ in 21st-Century India: Reflections on Multiracial Decolonial Practices of Anglo-Indians 17. Economic Policy-Making and Gender in 21st-Century South Africa: A Marxist Feminist Look into Policy 18. Karl Marx is Long Dead; Long Live Karl Marx: Zimbabwe’s Fast-Tracked Land Reform Viewed Through Marxist Lenses 19. Marxism, Decoloniality, and the Plight of Mineworkers in South Africa Postscript

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis in Africa at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is a leading decolonial theorist and historian with over 100 publications; recent books include Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa: Turning Over a New Leaf (2020) and Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (2018).

Morgan Ndlovu is Professor of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Zululand in South Africa and a founding member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN). He is the author of Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality (2019).