Lecture by Prof. Dr. LIM Jie-Hyun (Sogang University): The Revolution Comes to the East: colonial Modernity, National Subjectivity and Subaltern Everydayness

Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim Sogang University Asianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transposition of Marxian ideas to non-European countries. When revolution came to East, events contradicted the ideology. The Bolshevik revolution seemed to deny Marx’s famous dictum of ‘the country that is more…