Military Marxism

Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 explores African Marxist theory and the intellectual merits of Afro-Maxist schools of thought to show how they have developed and impacted sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. He also discusses the efficacy of the movements influenced by Marxism and how they are contested today. Through in-depth research, Mayer answers the following questions: Who were the African Marxist intellectuals? What happened to these intellectuals in the 1990s in NGO-administered, deindustrialized Africa? How are these theories inspiring popular rebellions and radical anti-Western military coups today? This book explores how Military Marxism, through its own rich and variegated African theory, has continued to inform and guide the practice of various political movements today.

Adam Mayer is assistant professor of international studies at the American University of Iraq-Baghdad and at Széchenyi István University in Hungary.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Marxist Africa: A Political History that Includes Marxist Winners
Chapter 2: The Classics: Intellectual Roots of Militant and Military Marxism in Africa
Chapter 3: Africa's Unipolar Era: Communist and Radical Thought in Africa's Three Lost Decades and Beyond (1987-2023)
Conclusion: African Military Marxism: The Marxism That is Ready to Take Power
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About the Author