Christopher Balcom
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Balcom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Balcom |
| SIGNATURE | BALCOM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The National and Colonial Questions Revisited
This paper takes as its point of departure the possibility that Frantz Fanon may have read Vladimir Lenin and M. N. Roy’s debate at the Second World Congress of the Communist International in 1920. I revisit the stakes of this earlier debate alongside Fanon’s later interventions and explore affinities and differences in how Fanon and Roy approach the class politics of anticolonial revolution. The paper also compares their critiques of nationalism…
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’
This paper investigates the thought of the Indian revolutionary and philosopher M.N. Roy (1887–1954). The essay argues that Roy’s pivot from Marxism to a liberal ‘New Humanism’ over the course of the 1930s and 1940s was shaped by his thinking about fascism and represents a broader turn away from a materialist reading of history and loss of confidence in the Indian working class. The paper begins with an analysis of Roy’s early communism, and cons…
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’
This paper investigates the thought of the Indian revolutionary and philosopher M.N. Roy (1887–1954). The essay argues that Roy’s pivot from Marxism to a liberal ‘New Humanism’ over the course of the 1930s and 1940s was shaped by his thinking about fascism and represents a broader turn away from a materialist reading of history and loss of confidence in the Indian working class. The paper begins with an analysis of Roy’s early communism, and cons…
From Communist Internationalism to a ‘New Humanism’
This paper investigates the thought of the Indian revolutionary and philosopher M.N. Roy (1887–1954). The essay argues that Roy’s pivot from Marxism to a liberal ‘New Humanism’ over the course of the 1930s and 1940s was shaped by his thinking about fascism and represents a broader turn away from a materialist reading of history and loss of confidence in the Indian working class. The paper begins with an analysis of Roy’s early communism, and cons…
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality
The National and Colonial Questions Revisited
This paper takes as its point of departure the possibility that Frantz Fanon may have read Vladimir Lenin and M. N. Roy’s debate at the Second World Congress of the Communist International in 1920. I revisit the stakes of this earlier debate alongside Fanon’s later interventions and explore affinities and differences in how Fanon and Roy approach the class politics of anticolonial revolution. The paper also compares their critiques of nationalism…
Colonialism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works)