Decolonizing Dialectics

Decolonizing Dialectics

by Geo Maher
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Publication Date: 06/01/2017

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Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics Geo Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.

ISBN:
9780822373704
9780822373704
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-01-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Geo Maher

George Ciccariello-Maher is a Professor, writer, organizer, and agitator.

He taught previously at Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas.

He is the author of three books, including We Created Chavez and Decolonizing Dialectics.

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