Spring 2026 Global Marx and Marxism
This seminar is dedicated to studying the evolution of Marx’s and Marxists’ writings on global questions of empire, colonialism, and non-European societies. It establishes Marx’s key materialist reading of history and his foundational categories of analysis (such as exploitation and class struggle) and traces how Marx utilizes them to understand emerging international developments. The seminar also examines how Marxists and socialists – for example, Lenin, Mao, and Fanon –build on Marx’s insights and methodology and intervene in key questions of their own time, especially on decolonization and revolutionary politics. The aim of the seminar is to critically engage Marxism as a theory of human emancipation rooted in indigenous traditions.
This seminar is dedicated to studying the evolution of Marx’s and Marxists’ writings on global questions of empire, colonialism, and non-European societies. It establishes Marx’s key materialist reading of history and his foundational categories of analysis (such as exploitation and class struggle) and traces how Marx utilizes them to understand emerging international developments. The seminar also examines how Marxists and socialists – for example, Lenin, Mao, and Fanon –build on Marx’s insights and methodology and intervene in key questions of their own time, especially on decolonization and revolutionary politics. The aim of the seminar is to critically engage Marxism as a theory of human emancipation rooted in indigenous traditions.
- Teacher: Bashir Abu-Manneh