Lexington Books
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978-1-66692-576-0 • Hardback • January 2025 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
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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
Bibliography
About the Author
Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 is a tremendously important book that serves to highlight the theoretical and practical achievements of Marxist intellectuals and Marxist states on the African continent. Mayer successfully shows that the prevalent contempt towards the achievements of radical postcolonial African states is both epistemically unwarranted and politically dangerous.
— Zeyad el Nabolsy, York University
Building on his groundbreaking work, Naija Marxisms, Adam Mayer turns the lens of his powerful scholarship to the communist intellectuals who influenced liberation struggles across Africa. He concludes that intellectual historians need to study African revolutionaries now more than ever.
— Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech