Contemporary fellow travellers: Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists and the theory and political practice of Marxism.
Within academic discourses of postcolonial theory, much has been written on whether and how Marxism can be drawn on to understand the 'postcolonial world' and, in this regard, what the relations between Eurocentrism and Marxism are. In practice, Marxism remains a core analytical framework for many e...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 46; no. 11; pp. 1324 - 1342 |
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