Marxism and National Liberation: a Statement of the Theoretical Problem

Abstract

In this chapter,¹ I have chosen to limit myself to a statement of the theoretical problem, rather than present a full theoretical exposition. For the problem that we are going to consider is above all dynamic, a problem in constant movement; it is not, therefore, a body of doctrine that we have to analyse, but a movement, one of whose central drives is a body of methodological, philosophical, ideological and sociological work called Marxism. It is therefore in my view impossible to put forward any theses on the methodological level. Furthermore, on a personal note, I am not qualified to put forward theses. And thirdly, to the extent that there do exist provisional theses, these have been brought together in a text which you may already know — the full text of the resolutions and motions passed by the first Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America, held in Havana in January 1966. Other than these, there are no theses in any form which encompass the Three Continents; what remains is the possibility of situating them, of stating the problem.