The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital keyword-irr It is clear that democracy

It is clear that democracy - the principle of government by and for the people - is not living up to its promise

The culmination of decades of engagement with Lévi-Strauss’s work

Its aim was to open up a Left political space between Stalinist orthodoxy and bureaucratic social democracy

his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt

Together they highlight the contradictions in the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different historical periods

The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital keyword-irr It is clear that democracyVivek Chibbers Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as without any doubt a bomb, and the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date. It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of postcolonial studies, modernity, and much else. This book brings together major