A domestic-focused metropolitan Left has abandoned the core socialist project of anti-imperialism

Evidence

To the extent that the metropolitan Left has come to concentrate so entirely on improvement in the quality of life in the respective metropolitan countries, speaking of social movements within the national boundaries of imperialist countries and the perfection of democracy for the historic beneficiaries of imperialism as the immediate goal, it has abandoned the fundamental project of socialism, which is none other than the destruction of the imperialist character of modern capital. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595

Categorization

• CANDY: A provocatively quotable one-line takedown of affluent ‘progressive’ politics.
• XREF: connects to: Metropolitan leftists suppressed memory of Soviet-backed anti-colonial victories — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 149; The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 146; The metropolitan Left suppressed Soviet-supported revolutions’ material solidarity after the 1980s shift

Related

• The metropolitan Left suppressed Soviet-supported revolutions’ material solidarity after the 1980s shift (similarity 0.85)
• Metropolitan leftists suppressed memory of Soviet-backed anti-colonial victories (similarity 0.83)
• The 1960s metropolitan Left wrongly conflated anti-colonialism with domestic social progress. (similarity 0.82)
• The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse (similarity 0.78)