Marxism’s Eurocentrism

A critique contending that classical Marxism, rooted largely in European historical experience (particularly the French Revolution and industrialization of Western Europe), inadequately theorizes or marginalizes non-European histories, colonialism, and racial dynamics. It holds that Marx’s universalist narratives presuppose a European developmental trajectory and thus fail to account for colonial and postcolonial conditions.

Claims that use this term

• Hall’s anticolonial formation forced a critique of Marxism’s Eurocentrism.
• Hall’s Marxism contested Marxism’s Eurocentrism and neglect of colonialism.
• 1956’s twin crises drove postcolonials to deconstruct Marxism’s Eurocentrism.