Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism

According to Edward Said's influential study on Orientalism, Marx is guilty of a racist Orientalisation of the non-Western world. For a long time, it seemed that this judgment was Postcolonialism's last word on the author of Capital. After a long time of demarcation and ignorance of Marxism and Postcolonialism, the question of Marx's Eurocentrism needs to be reconsidered. In different contributions to this volume, Kolja Lindner uses theoretical tools of different approaches in social sciences to deconstruct different elements of Marx's and Marxist writings that have come into the focus of postcolonial criticism: ethnocentrism, Orientalism, false universalism and the oblivion of modernity's global entanglement. We thereby discover the not well-known part of Marx's work that shows a growing awareness of global developments and cosmopolitan struggles.