Amel, Mahdi.

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.

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Communism-Arab countries.


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