Now that the first wave of 'revolution' against decrepit empires, leading to state capitalism and vanguardism, is showing its deep fault lines, I reopen the question of Marx’s real project and focus on holistic education into citizenship – as the conjuncture has moved from the central agency of the industrial proletariat – as a robust substitute for both vanguardism and techniques of pre-party formation (Spivak, 2016).
About Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a renowned theorist and professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University where she founded the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Spivak first came to prominence with her translation of Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and has since applied deconstructive readings to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses including feminism, Marxism, literary criticism and postcolonialism.
