Kristin Plys: Marxist Theory and Social History of the Global South, Gebunden

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Analyzing the trajectory of global capitalism as seen from workingclass and anticolonial movements in the Global South, this book demonstrates how theoretical work in Marxist political economy and scholarship in social history can work in tandem to articulate the structures of worldhistorical capitalism.

Marxist Theory and Social History of the Global Southpresents a distinct approach to social history, exploring Marxist theory from an explicitly antiimperialist perspective from the Global South to unfolding Marxist political economy, empirical work on antifascist movements in the 1970s Global South, engagement with experimental art as left politics in the Global South, historiographies of labor movements, and writings on historical methods. Approaching the humanities and the social sciences through the lens of antiauthoritarian, antiimperialist Marxist political economy, this book engages with Marxism articulated in a range of different forms to determine that one must break with nationalist historiography and must not view decolonization as a uniform struggle against colonialism for all people. Analysis must view decolonization as affecting categories of people unevenly and narrate decolonization through the overlooked question of class struggle to effectively dismantle power and hierarchy.

Providing an important theoretical framework for contemporary Marxist theory and social history, Plys has created a key resource for advanced students and researchers in sociology, social theory, political science, postcolonial studies, economics, and cultural studies, expanding coverage of a deeply overlooked area in political sociology.