Postkoloniale Theorie und das Gespenst des Kapitals

Postcolonial theory has become an extremely influential approach in the academic sphere in recent years. This school of thought, which aims to explain developments in the Global South, is particularly known for its critique of universalizing categories of Enlightenment. This is precisely where Vivek Chibber engages theoretically, with meticulousness and historical depth, using the example of Subaltern Studies, and he identifies analytical fallacies and historical misunderstandings in their central arguments. Politically, he aims to defend the perspective of a proletarian and anti-capitalist internationalism in the Marxist sense, which he believes is obstructed by postcolonial theory.