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The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

Kevin B. Anderson

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English
Verso Books
01 July 2025
In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the years 1869-82, he turns his attention to colonialism, agrarian Russia and India, Indigenous societies, and gender. These texts, some of them only now being published, evidence a change of perspective, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat being touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups, peasant communes, and Indigenous communist groups, in many of which women held great social power.

Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on India, Ireland, Algeria, and Latin America. This book will appeal to those concerned with the critique of Eurocentrism, racial domination, and gender subordination, but equally to those focusing on capital and class. For as Anderson shows, the late Marx transcended these boundaries as he elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities. In all these ways, the visionary writings of the late Marx speak to us today.
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Imprint:   Verso Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   325g
ISBN:   9781804296875
ISBN 10:   1804296872
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kevin B. Anderson is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with courtesy appointments in Feminist Studies and Political Science. He is the author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary) and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. He is also an editor of the forthcoming English edition of the late Marx’s notebooks on non-Western and precapitalist societies.

Reviews for The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

Imperialism persists in the 21st century. Marx's last endeavors to overcome his Eurocentrism give an invaluable lesson to today's struggles against ongoing settler colonialism. -- Kohei Saito, author of <i>Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth</i> Kevin Anderson's brilliant essay on Late Marx, a sequel to his path-breaking Marx at the Margins, examines his writings and notebooks from 1869 to 1882, explaining why Marx came to the conclusion that revolutionary change would start from the periphery - Ireland and Russia - before arriving to the core, Western Europe. Well argued, and richly documented, this insightful new book by Kevin Anderson substantially renews the reflection on Marx's revolutionary views. -- Michael Löwy, author of The <i>Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx</i> Continuing his earlier work on Marx, Kevin B. Anderson in Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads brings to life and to today's reader the ""Third Marx"": after the Young Marx, a Hegelian philosopher and the mature Marx, a political economist, we can now see the late Marx grappling with colonialism, globalization, various forms of landed property, and gradually questioning his own earlier Eurocentrism. This Third Marx, while the least well-known, may be the closest to our modern sensibilities and interests -- Branko Milanovic, author of <i>Visions of Inequality</i>


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