Marxism Archives - Intervention

How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Dante, Enlightenment, History, Humanists, Humanities, Identitarian nationalism, Italian, Marxism, Michelangelo, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Schoolification, universities, ‘Hermeneutics of suspicion’No CommentsViews:

Justin Smith-Ruiu, the author, is introduced by THE as a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Université Paris Cité as well as founder and president of the Hinternet Foundation,... Read more

Situating the Coming CDD War on Democracy and Development Deficits in (West) Africa

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: CDD-West Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Democratic order, Development deficits, Marxism, Opposition, Radical feminists, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

On March 31st, 2026, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) launched its Strategic Plan for 2026 – 2030 in Abuja, Nigeria. This is the second and concluding part of Inter... Read more

Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more

Marxism and Literature After Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Apartheid, Critical security studies, Deliberative democracy, Discourse, Emancipation, Frankfurt School critical theory, Gramscian Marxism, Kant, Literature, Marxism, Plato, Prof Ken BoothNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Decades before his death January 11th, 2026, Prof Biodun Jeyifo had ceased to teach in Nigeria. But a knowledge producer is inherently a global supplier, irrespective of loca... Read more

Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, American science, Decoloniality, Discourse theory, Marxism, Permacrisis, Zaria School of History, ‘Hegemony and Strategy’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more

Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, IMF/World Bank, Jacques Derrida, Ka-Maat, Marxism, Pan-African ClubNo CommentsViews:

By the time this is published, Prof Okello Oculi would have been interned in Abuja Nigeria, far away from his village of birth in Uganda but in the capital city of the black world. It is deb... Read more

Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Direct democracy, Gramsci, Lenin, Marxism, NEP, Paris Commune, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

Although now reconceptualised in different ways from Gramsci’s, income economist and City University of New York (CUNY) academic, Branko Milanovic delivers on the classical Gramscian v... Read more

A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Marxism, Middle – Belt, Minorities, Nationalities, Niger Delta, Northern region, Stalin, Willinks CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki ‎”Thus, a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people”, J. V. Stalin The making of a community of people into a nation is... Read more

How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more