We must turn the meaning of anti-colonial into an instinct.
“Ten Theses on #Marxism and #Decolonisation”, the latest dossier from the #Tricontinental - adapted from a Vijay Prashad lecture with a foreword by Abel Prieto.
▻https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-ten-theses-on-marxism-and-decolonisation
With roots in a Cuban perspective (Fidel #Castro is heavily cited throughout), the dossier presents a series of charges against neoliberal #globalisation as well as those of its radical adversaries that Prashad judges ineffective: #postmarxism, #Afropessimism, #anarchism...
The dossier thinks that #neoliberalism should be fought, instead, by a “national liberation Marxism”. The Marxist tradition involves a fight for "dignity", against class and other oppressions; national liberation is freedom from #imperialism: the gaining of "sovereignty". It is to these twin fights that we must return.
Give it a read, or even just a scroll for the beautiful art used to illustrate the publication. Above a gorgeous watercolour by Osmond Watson, the text concludes:
Certainly, socialism is not going to appear magically. It must be fought for and built, our struggles deepened, our social connections tightened, our cultures enriched. Now is the time for a united front, to bring together the working class and the peasantry as well as allied classes, to increase the confidence of workers, and to clarify our theory. To unite the working class and the peasantry as well as allied classes requires the unity of all left and progressive forces. Our divides in this time of great danger must not be central; our unity is essential. Humanity demands it.