Welchen Marx/-ismus braucht die dekoloniale Theorie und Praxis?

The title of this article What type of Marx/ism for a decolonising praxis? proposes that today’s decolonising praxis not only requires an engagement with Marx/ism but that such Marxism needs to be a decolonising Marxism (Dinerstein forthcoming). I use the term decolonising in two ways: as a verb in continuous tense, decolonising designates a process (movement) of deconstruction of the Eurocentric nodes of Marxist categories in dialogue with other critiques (feminism, post/decolonial); as an adjective decolonising Marx/ism (descolonizador or descolonizante) means that Marxism can be the toolkit to challenge ‘vestiges of Eurocentrism’ (Tansel 2014: 77) of traditional/Euro-Marxism. In the following, I explore some key aspects of ‘late Marx’ (Shanin 1983), that it Marx’s valuable yet neglected work during the last ten years of his life, during which he connected previous undeveloped ideas with new research to overcame its own epistemic horizon and expand his horizon of visibility (Linder 2010). We can now divide Marx’s work on three stages (early, mature, and late). I then offer three Marxist contributions to kill two birds at once: on the one hand, I tackle the ‘deafening silence’ that still exists on the role of the non-west [and subjects not identified as working-class] in the formation of a global radical agency (Tansel 2014), and on the other hand, I point to some of the weaknesses of present decolonial/post development theorisations.