Military Marxism : Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023

Adam Mayer’s Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 explores African Marxist theory to show how this school of thought has developed and impacted Sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. The intellectual merits of Afro-Marxist schools of thought, and the efficacy of the movements that they influenced, 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.