Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 19572023

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Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 explores African Marxist theory and the intellectual merits of Afro-Maxist schools of thought to show how they have developed and impacted sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. He also discusses the efficacy of the movements influenced by Marxism and how they are contested today. Through in-depth research, Mayer answers the following questions: Who were the African Marxist intellectuals What happened to these intellectuals in the 1990s in NGO-administered, deindustrialized Africa How are these theories inspiring popular rebellions and radical anti-Western military coups today This book explores how Military Marxism, through its own rich and variegated African theory, has continued to inform and guide the practice of various political movements today.

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Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africas Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 19572023 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

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Adam Mayer is assistant professor of international studies at the American University of IraqBaghdad and at Szchenyi Istvn University in Hungary.