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- C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
- An Introduction to E. San Juan: What is Postcolonial Theory?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
The spectacular proliferation of Postcolonial Theory during the past decade has produced a stimulating yet vexing controversy in Marxist circles. This fractious school of cultural criticism evolved from earlier left-wing concerns with cultures of peoples of color in the internal and external colonies of the West, usually treated under the rubrics of “Third World Literature,” “Minority Discourse,” and “Resistance Literature.”
- Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1997
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