National Liberation Marxism & Western Marxism, Vijay Prashad

Friday 1 November, 3PM-5PM
William Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts Building
University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010

In the aftermath of the October Revolution of 1917, two distinct trends opened up in the world communist movement. The defeat of the German Revolution in 1918 set in motion a break between the Marxist intelligentsia and the working-class movement. This break proceeded to develop a philosophical Marxism that remained outside the ranks of the workers’ movement. This has been called Western Marxism. However, Marxism entered the colonised parts of the world through the experience of anti-colonialism. This experience produced variants of National Liberation Marxism.

In this talk, Vijay Prashad will elaborate on this form of Marxism, and the relevance of this approach today.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, written with Noam Chomsky. Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi).

This event is jointly hosted with the Red Ant Collective.
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