Reviving Anti-Imperialist Marxism (feat. Ali Kadri)

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Dr. Ali Kadri on his critique of Western Marxism and the importance of anti-imperialist struggle in contemporary Marxism.

With guest co-host Benji Schoendorff, I sit down with Dr. Ali Kadri, a leading Marxist political economist and scholar of the Arab world to discuss his important new book The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction (2023). In this interview we discuss Kadri's critique of Western Marxism, the question of revolutionary consciousness today, class issues, imperialism and its status and dynamics, the role of the anti-imperialist struggle and Dr. Kadri discusses his influences in contemporary Marxism. In his book The Accumulation of Waste, Kadri traces how capitalism, especially in the Global South, increasingly accumulates waste not only in discarded commodities, but in wasted lives, labor, and entire nations rendered disposable by imperial extraction. Through his incisive critique of “Western Marxism” and its retreat from anti-imperialist struggle, Kadri argues that Marxism today must re-anchor itself in the lived realities of colonial domination, military intervention, and financial subjugation. This conversation explores why imperialism remains central to capitalist reproduction and why any Marxism that cannot think anti-imperialism is destined to fail…

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Tutt

Guests: Benji Schoendorff, Ali Kadri

Topics covered

• anti-imperialism
• Marxism
• political economy
• capitalism
• revolutionary consciousness

Keywords

• Marxism
• imperialism
• political economy
• capitalism
• Global South
• revolutionary consciousness
• anti-imperialist struggle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Resistance is Fertile

Books & works: The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction

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