Marx in the Caribbean

This class pursues a reading of Marx's critique of political economy, Capital, with special focus on 1. a reconstruction of Marx's analysis of the nature of capitalist slavery and 2. the reception of Marx and Marxism in Antillean anticolonial thought. The latter focuses on figures including Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, CLR James, Jacques Roumain, and Jacques Stephen Alexis.