Beyond Marx, Beyond Europe

Raul Fornet-Betancourt questions a series of borders related to the idea of going beyond both Marx and Europe: beyond European capitalism and its ideology of historical progress, beyond the timid consideration of colonialism in the eurocentrist tendencies of Marxism, beyond the supposed universality inherited from Christian Europe. As part of a deliberately humanist interpretation of Marx, Fornet-Betancourt considers this “call” to go beyond both as a European and a non-European task, and explores, in relation to the second point, the contributions of the Latin-American theology of liberation to the Marxist heritage.