Abstract
The paper enhances Frida Haug's Theses on Marxism Feminism by discussing a silence in the Theses regarding the internal colonialism of the feminist movement that continues to create racialised hierarchies among white feminists and indigenous and women of colour, and their struggles. The author contends that Marxism Feminism is failing to find new ways to understand diversity due to the influence of traditional -close and Eurocentric-Marxism. To tackle the problem, Marxism Feminism requires a decolonising Marxism that draws on 'late Marx' and recent Marxist and feminist theoretical developments aiming to criticise, de-westernise and de-Eurocentralise Marxism. The author explores four elements for a ‘decolonising’ Marxism (value theory, subsumption and social formation, linear development of radical change, and temporality of struggles), and discusses their implications on Marxism Feminism, gesturing towards the inclusion of a 14th Thesis.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Unpublished - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is a Professor of Political Sociology and Critical Decolonial theory, at University of Bath, UK. She is a critical theorist, writer, activist, and one of her generation's most influential open Marxists. Her term 'the art of organising hope,' which creates synergies between contemporary prefigurative struggles and Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope, has been celebrated within the academic, artist, and activist communities. She opened a new post-disciplinary field of decolonial, feminist and critical research: the global politics of hope aiming to help present and future collective ventures to flourish toward transforming society beyond capitalist relations. She is a member of the core group of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, founder or the Women on the Verge collective and co-funder of the Decolonising Knowledge For Social Change Research Centre (Bath), and the Standing Seminar in Critical Theory (funded by the Southwest Doctoral Training Partnership, Economic and Social Research Council, UK). Her recent publications include The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (2015); Women Theorising without Parachutes (ed. 2016); Open Marxism 4: Against a closing world (co-ed. 2019); A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia, Emerald (co-authored with Harry Pitts). The Global Politics of Hope (PM Kairos) and decolonising Marxism. Radical Subjectivity without borders (Pluto Press) are forthcoming in 2024. Website: https://www.anaceciliadinerstein.comKeywords
- internal colonialism social formation,
- subsumption
- temporality,
- internal colonialism
- Marx
- Bloch
- value theory
- social reproduction theory
- feminism
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