This is essential reading for anyone committed to understanding-and transforming-our global political order. In essence, this work transcends meticulous scholarship-it is both a definitive analysis of African revolutionary thought and an indispensable handbook for internationalists. Mayer does not simply document these traditions; he arms global movements with intellectual artillery.

International Journal of African Historical Studies

This book does as much as establishing, or attempting to establish, a new paradigm around African Marxism, and claims that its thinkers are theoretically sound, sophisticated public intellectuals who knew their societies intimately. I suspect that this book will become a standard go-to reference work on African Marxism, and also African state socialist systems, and especially the thinkers behind them. Certainly it is a great addition to any library worth its salt on African history!

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies

Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 is a tremendously important book that serves to highlight the theoretical and practical achievements of Marxist intellectuals and Marxist states on the African continent. Mayer successfully shows that the prevalent contempt towards the achievements of radical postcolonial African states is both epistemically unwarranted and politically dangerous.

Zeyad el Nabolsy, York University

Building on his groundbreaking work, Naija Marxisms, Adam Mayer turns the lens of his powerful scholarship to the communist intellectuals who influenced liberation struggles across Africa. He concludes that intellectual historians need to study African revolutionaries now more than ever.

Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech