Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx?
“They cannot represent themselves: the must be represented”.

The correct option is Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Karl Marx's famous quote, “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” (originally from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, referring to the small-holding peasantry), is a foundational concept in critical theory regarding power, voice, and representation.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, an influential postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist, famously appropriates this statement in her seminal essay "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses". In this work, she critiques Western feminist discourses for homogenizing and constructing "Third World women" as a singular, monolithic, and powerless subject group. By doing so, Western discourse position themselves as the necessary subjects who must speak for and "represent" these women, thereby stripping them of their agency and replicating colonial power dynamics.