The research attempts to evaluate the nexus between neoliberal global capitalism and neo-imperialism as portrayed in Tariq Ali’s play A Banker for All Seasons (2008) from a Marxist Postcolonial perspective. It applies the theory of World System and Dependency to examine the polarization of the globe into the core, imperialist and peripheral, colonized capitalist economies through the evolution of a capitalist world system in the last five centuries. In the same light, the present study scrutinizes the perpetuation of dependency in the postcolonial, peripheral states by the development of US-centric transnational enterprises which, supported by the national capitalists and neoliberal agenda, economically exploit masses across the globe. A textual analysis of Agha Hasan Abedi’s character in the play highlights the way the global Bank of Credit and Commerce International founded in Pakistan ran neo-imperialist operations and plundered the hard-earned money of its small depositors, benefitting the big capitalists.

Marxist-humanism is a significant and pertinent theory that critiques the exploitation of lower classes by bourgeois classes and lays emphasis on the value of individuals in present-day class-conscious societies. In the Marxist-humanist vision of human society, the freedom of a human being is the most important aspect of social existence which should not be usurped by elite classes. This research paper scrutinizes the Marxist-Humanist strains delineated in the thematic dimensions of the three selected short stories The Doll’s House, The Garden Party, and Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield. The nature of this paper is qualitative, and the researcher has attempted to unravel the process of dehumanization of the bourgeois sections of society which results in the alienation of the lower classes. Mansfield’s short stories have not been previously explored from a Marxist-humanist perspective and the present research contributes to the available research studies on Katherine Mansfield’s short stories.

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Aiming to uphold the ideal of ushering in the true equality between our fellow human beings and their symbiotic relationship with the nature/environment, the goal of this chapter is to rationalize that any activism directed towards women's liberation will achieve the fullest spectrum only when it involves and incorporates the environmental perspective on the decolonization of nature too. The false anthropocentric polarities between culture and nature and man and woman were engendered and proliferated by Western phallogocentric discourses that dichotomized nature and culture bracketing the former with the woman and latter with the man presenting it like an obvious and great truth. This chapter, therefore, deconstructing the myth of the false differences between the genders and the pallocentric nature/culture binary seeks to make a humanitarian claim that the ultimate liberation of women from the shackles of phallogo/anthropcentric is inextricably linked with the liberation of nature also.