Capitalism’s postwar global consolidation outweighed decolonization and socialist gains

Evidence

What these two dynamicsof decolonization, and of very considerable expansion of socialist bases in many of rhe poorer countries - tended to conceal for many years, however, was the sheer power~ eventually to prove decisiveof the third element which constituted the global contradiction of the postwar years and came to determine even the relation between decolonization and socialist revolution, while greatly exacerbating the internal crises of communist states and movements. For thts same period witnessed the historically unprecedented growth, unification and technological power of capitalism itself, with fully globalized circuits of production and circulation, without colonial divisions and with increasing modernization of travel, transport and communication technologies, with far-reaching consequences for the international division of labour, not to speak of the technologies and effectiveness of subsequent imperialist warsof destruction, and of prolonged encirclement - against the emerging socialist states and movements in the backward zones. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 98

Categorization

• XREF: This materialist priority — capitalism’s third term structuring the decolonization-socialism relation — parallels Ahmad’s insistence that class/material structure underlies discursive frames, useful against strategic-essentialism critique. — connects to: Postwar capitalist expansion, not decolonization, decisively shaped global contradictions.; Fordist-Keynesian capitalism expanded globally to absorb de-colonized nations — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 784; Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar capitalist expansion, not decolonization, decisively shaped global contradictions. #corroborates (0.95)
• Fordist-Keynesian capitalism expanded globally to absorb de-colonized nations #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 784
• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292
• Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order #complicates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 315
• Global anti-capitalist revolution retreated by the mid-1970s #corroborates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271