Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Marx’s writings have been criticized as Eurocentric and blind to issues of race and nationalism. Anderson’s examination of Marx’s writings, especially those from his often-neglected last decade of life, will show otherwise. They indicate a greater appreciation of the contributions of non-Western societies to world culture, and a more multilinear concept of human development. These texts also show a lively interest in gender relations.
Kevin Anderson teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a participant in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) publication project, the author of Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism (1995), the co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (2005), and a co-editor of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004).
