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The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism: The Discourse of Edward Said

San Juan, E. Jr.
http://solidarity-us.org/node/1781

Publisher:  Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Date Written:  01/11/1998
Year Published:  1998  
Resource Type:  Article

ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant capitalism, diverse modes of production with varying temporalities and “superstructural” effects have since then reconfigured the planet. In a new cartography, we find...

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