ENGL 096B. Global Marx and Marxism

This course focuses on the evolution of Marx’s-and Marxists’-writings on global questions of empire, colonialism, and non-European societies. We will engage Marx’s key materialist reading of history and his foundational categories of analysis (such as exploitation and class struggle), tracing how Marx uses them to understand emerging international developments. We will also examine how Marxists and socialists-Lenin, Mao, and Fanon, for example-build on Marx’s insights and methodology to intervene in key questions of their own times, especially on decolonization and revolutionary politics. Our aim will be to revisit Marxism as a theory of human emancipation rooted in indigenous traditions.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2026. Abu-Manneh.
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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