Arab Marxism and National Liberation : Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (148 pages)
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.223 .
- Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translation (Safieddine and Giordani) -- Part 1. Remembering Amel -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Anti-colonial Intellectual (Safieddine) -- Chapter 2. Biographical Note: The Martyr Intellectual (Safieddine) -- Part 2. Selected Writings -- Chapter 3. Colonialism and Underdevelopment I: An Attempt to Understand the Colonial Relation -- Chapter 4. Colonialism and Underdevelopment II: On the Colonial Mode of Production -- Chapter 5. On the Sectarian State -- Chapter 6. Marx in the Orientalism of Edward Said -- Chapter 7. The Islamised Bourgeois Trend -- Chapter 8. The Problem of Cultural Heritage -- List of Amel's Published Books -- Bibliography -- Index.
Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. This first-time English translation of his selected writings sheds light on his notable contributions to the study of capitalism in a colonial context.