The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson presents his newly published book, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads, based on systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks” and related Marx texts from his final years, 1869-1883.

In these writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts, turning his attention to colonialism, agrarian Russia and India, Indigenous societies, and gender. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat but would be touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups, peasant communes, and Indigenous communist groups, in many of which women held great social power. As Anderson shows, the late Marx elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities that continues to speak to us today.

Kevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s, working in social and political theory, especially Marx, Hegel, Lenin, Luxemburg, Marxist humanism, and the Frankfurt School. Among his numerous books are Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary, 2005), and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He is is the coeditor, with Peter Hudis, of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader. He writes regularly for New Politics, The International Marxist-Humanist, LA Progressive, and Jacobin.