Arab Marxism and National Liberation
Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel
$56.84
- Paperback
148 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2022
Summary
Mahdi Amel (193687) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. For the first time in English, this collection makes available lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on colonialism and underdevelopment in which Amel began to grapple with the question of dependency, his treatise on sectarianism and the state, his critique of Edward Said’s analysis of Marx, his exposure of emerging Islamised bourgeois trends of tho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781642596038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1642596035 |
| Author: | Mahdi Amel, Hicham Safieddine, Gilbert Achcar, Angela Giordani |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 148 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 10g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
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Critics Review
“[Amel’s] tenacity of thought can guide us in understanding and supporting today’s forms of anticolonial and Indigenous resistance. ‘You are not defeated as long as you continue to resist’: We return to these words, before we turn to face the world.” —Bassem Saad, N+1
About The Author
Mahdi Amel
Mahdi Amel (1936-1987) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. Born in south Lebanon, he studied, taught, and wrote on Marxist philosophy in relation to colonialism and national liberation in France, Algeria and Lebanon. He was assassinated in 1987.
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