Anti-war movements reduced socialism to anti-colonial nationalism
Evidence
The issue of an active solidarity with the socialist projects in Cuba or Indochina was posed only by the groupings which were immediately branded as ultra-Left, while the ant.i-war movement as a whole was arrested at the pedagogical level of simply affirming the rights of small nations to determine their sovereign future. Any militant mass struggle for socialism became, in these formulations, more or less synonymous with the anti-colonial nationalism of the underdeveloped; socialism, in other words, was poor man’s capitalism. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 128
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-colonial socialism can be re-cast as imperialist proletarian nationalism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 379; Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116; World War I nationalism destroyed international worker solidarity and the Second International — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-colonial socialism can be re-cast as imperialist proletarian nationalism
#exemplifies(0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 379 - Third-worldist nationalism regresses from the Marxist critique it displaces
#corroborates(0.80) - Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism
#corroborates(0.78) - Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide
#qualifies(0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116 - World War I nationalism destroyed international worker solidarity and the Second International
#complicates(0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981 - State-centered nationalism is no longer a viable anti-imperialist answer
#complicates(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595 - Anti-colonial critique before Said was overwhelmingly Marxist-affiliated
#exemplifies(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 320