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.

Detailed Explanation:
The quote “They cannot represent themselves: they must be represented” originally comes from Karl Marx's 1852 political essay, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, where he describes the political consciousness and lack of class organization among small-holding French peasants.
In postcolonial and transnational feminist scholarship, this famous quote is critically appropriated and challenged by Chandra Talpade Mohanty in her landmark 1984 essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses".

Mohanty uses and critiques this statement to argue that Western feminist scholarship frequently constructs a monolithic, homogenized category of the "Third World woman" as passive, powerless, and lacking agency.
By treating women of the Global South as a uniform group of victims who are incapable of articulating their own experiences, Western academic discourses position themselves as the necessary "representatives" or spokespersons for these women. Mohanty calls for moving beyond this patronizing, colonialist logic of representation, concluding her critique with a direct challenge to the paternalistic assumption that marginalized groups cannot speak for themselves.