Marx and the Intellectual From the Third World; or the Problem of Historical Retardation Once Again

What is Marx for an intellectual of the Third World? The author of some pages on pre-capitalist societies, the critic of Western society, or simply a name under whose authority it is sometimes convenient to take shelter? One could, of course, quote cases where considerations of tactics, or of erudition, were manifest; but it is not these cases that will be analysed here. It will be the cases where the intellectual of the Third World, conscious of his singularity, his culture and his past, finds himself one day forced, willy-nilly, to take Marx seriously and to define his own position by reference to Marx; and this day must come, theoretically speaking, if the intellectual in question is not an ideologist, in the worst sense of the word

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