Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique

Stephen Cullenberg

Rethinking Marxism2026https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003771159-19book-chapter
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Who is the ethical subject of humanism? The misadventures of international communism might teach us something about the violent consequences of imposing the most fragile part of Marx, the predictive Eurocentric scenario, upon large parts of the globe not historically centred in Europe.

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@article{stephen2026,
  title        = {{Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique}},
  author       = {Stephen Cullenberg},
  journal      = {Rethinking Marxism},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003771159-19},
}

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