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Marx and the Global South

Connecting History and Value Theory

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ID2322883
AuthorsLucia Pradella (0000-0001-5331-6015, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume51
Issue1
Pages146-161
Publication date2017-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038516661267
OpenAlexW2528171058
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited51

This article interrogates Marx's critique of political economy in the context of the global South and southern epistemologies. It first traces the contradictory roots of a non-Eurocentric conception of history within Adam Smith. Recovering Marx's silenced sociologies of colonialism in his writings and notebooks, it then shows that Marx incorporated colonialism and imperialism into his analysis of accumulation. The antagonism between wage-labour and capital needs to be understood as a global tendency, encompassing a hierarchy of forms of exploitation and oppression. Marx's support for the Taiping revolution (1850-1864) played a crucial, albeit often ignored, role in his theorisation. It allowed him to recognise the living potential for anti-colonial struggles and international solidarities, thus breaking with Eurocentric accounts of history. The article concludes that it is crucial to sociology's global futures that it reconnects with the critique of political economy, and actively learns from the anti-imperialist South

Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Futures contract · Neoclassical economics · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political Economy and Marxism

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Unique citing works19
Citations per year2,38
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 17

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