Military Marxism

Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 explores African Marxist theory and the intellectual merits of Afro-Maxist schools of thought to show how they have developed and impacted sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. He also discusses the efficacy of the movements influenced by Marxism and how they are contested today. Through in-depth research, Mayer answers the following questions: Who were the African Marxist intellectuals? What happened to these intellectuals in the 1990s in NGO-administered, deindustrialized Africa? How are these theories inspiring popular rebellions and radical anti-Western military coups today? This book explores how Military Marxism, through its own rich and variegated African theory, has continued to inform and guide the practice of various political movements today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-01-29
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt621 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666925760

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Marxist Africa: A Political History that Includes Marxist WinnersChapter 2: The Classics: Intellectual Roots of Militant and Military Marxism in AfricaChapter 3: Africa’s Unipolar Era: Communist and Radical Thought in Africa’s Three Lost Decades and Beyond (1987-2023)Conclusion: African Military Marxism: The Marxism That is Ready to Take PowerBibliographyAbout the Author

This book does as much as establishing, or attempting to establish, a new paradigm around African Marxism, and claims that its thinkers are theoretically sound, sophisticated public intellectuals who knew their societies intimately. I suspect that this book will become a standard go-to reference work on African Marxism, and also African state socialist systems, and especially the thinkers behind them. Certainly it is a great addition to any library worth its salt on African history!