In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book, Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023, Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from Africa's Military Marxists. According to Mayer, Marxist analysis that disregards the central role of armed violence to national liberation and social emancipation is ill advised, self-absorbed and detached from the lived realities of struggle and resistance on the continent, both historically and today.

In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book, Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023, Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from Africa's Military Marxists. According to Mayer, Marxist analysis that disregards the central role of armed violence to national liberation and social emancipation is ill advised, self-absorbed and detached from the lived realities of struggle and resistance on the continent, both historically and today.