Bøger af Adam Mayer

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.

In a world of violent mimes, mass protests against the metric system and freelance arsonists comes the story of a man tormented by abstract nightmares and dealing with the frustration and chaos of his job. He dreams of marrying the boss's daughter so he can fire all of his co-workers. But just before he can achieve his dream a group of insane Bulgarian investors buy the company. Their goal is to build a purple ray gun to defeat a giant blender that is chasing the new owner. Taste the Purple is so much more than a comedy, it answers the powerful questions of our time like does the right shoe go better with butter? Or does the angry blender break his pencil? Or if oranges were blue, would they still be called oranges? Confused? You should be. Read Taste the Purple to understand all of this and to find the meaning of life*. *Disclaimer - The meaning of life may or may not be inside this novel.

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the case of illegal Marxist party formations and legal anti-feudalist forces and in the NGO sector. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported pamphlets and a disconnected ideology.*BR**BR*Drawn from years of research in Nigeria and elsewhere, Naija Marxisms breaks new ground in tracing the historical trajectories that leftist movements underwent since the 1940s, whilst arguing that Marxism is alive and well in Nigeria. The book brings together Nigeria's pre-eminent radical thinkers, from Usman Tar and Edwin Madunagu, who are currently espousing a Marxian political economy and providing a class-based approach in the country's mainstream media channels, to the international reach of key Nigerian Marxists, such as Mokwugo Okoye, Ikenna Nzimiro and Eskor Toyo. *BR*