Marx and the Global South
Karl Marx lived in Europe 150 years ago, where he engaged in politics and wrote about Europe. Of the thousands of pages that he wrote, scholars have calculated that only about 400 pages dealt with non-European societies – for the most part journalistic writings on India, China, and the Ottoman Empire from the standpoint of British domestic policies. How, then, are his ideas relevant to the contemporary Global South (henceforward, South), the home of...