POLT 332 - Global Marxisms

This course explores the dazzling global trajectory of Marxism, focusing especially on the conceptual and political tensions that emerged from the uptake of this body of thought in markedly varied contexts around the world. How were Marxist concepts stretched and transformed in this process of adapting Marxist theory to account for largely agrarian conditions, racialized colonial hierarchies, and nationalist politics in the colonial world? The course begins with primary texts by Marx, Engels, and Lenin and then explores the receptions of Marxism by thinkers such as Ho Chi Minh, Jose Carlos Mariátegui, Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, and Mao Zedong.

Prerequisites: One course in political theory or a related field.