
📣 New Release📣 For our special issue on armed insurgency: @noamangali revisits the Maoist debates over armed struggle in 1970s Pakistan -- debates that still hold crucial lessons for today.
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📣 New Release📣 For our special issue on armed insurgency: @noamangali revisits the Maoist debates over armed struggle in 1970s Pakistan -- debates that still hold crucial lessons for today.


The best thing any socialist can do is study all the other socialist experiences and experiments like USSR, China, Cuba, etc. to see what kind of institutions they had and how it evolved and why they made them, and what went right, and what went wrong. Don’t start from 0 - there are tons to learn from.

I agree (he made it better). I kind of think every debate on the left is a variation of the unresolved debate between Thompson and Althusser too.



The problem with the Western Marxist framing is how it obscures the diversity of global South Marxist thought, which broadly teaches us that subordinating class struggle to (petty) bourgeois-led developmentalism should NOT be the rule, but _at best_ a contingent response to 1/



To be this confident without a vote bank is hilarious. #Sindh will vote and speak for itself & elect whomever they want - with over 100 seats in provincial assembly it’s quite clear who that is #PPP ♥️🖤💚


The problem with the Western Marxist framing is how it obscures the diversity of global South Marxist thought, which broadly teaches us that subordinating class struggle to (petty) bourgeois-led developmentalism should NOT be the rule, but _at best_ a contingent response to 1/




Western Marxism will ultimately never be able to fathom third world struggles and the nature of protracted national liberation projects. History teaches us, that in the global south, class struggle must be subordinated to a national project of sovereignty and development.



In this review of Rockhill's Western Marxism I take the book as an attack on my personal integrity, and through a contrapuntal philological detourontological approach argue that far from casting aspersions on Western Marxism the book shows that Western Marxism the highest ... 1/
