Stuart Hall’s Marxism required contesting its Eurocentrism and colonial blind spots

Evidence

For Stuart, the involvement with Marxism (deep-seated as it was) necessarily also involved a contestation of its profound Eurocentrism and its relative neglect of questions of imperialism and colonialism. For him, the missing term was, in a sense, quite particularly his own—the Caribbean, as the “Third … New World … the empty land where strangers from every other part of the globe collided … the primal scene where the fateful/fatal encounter was staged between Africa and the West.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to anti-colonial critiques of Marx’s ‘Asiatic mode’ and universalist history; parallels debates in Things Fall Apart about the colonial encounter. — connects to: Global Marxism’s failures stem from imposing Marx’s Eurocentric scenario worldwide. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1148