Colonial capitalism produces the same public-private split it creates in the First World

Evidence

For if one argues that the Third World is constituted by the ‘experience of colonialism and imperialism’, one must also recognize the two-pronged action of the colonial/imperialist dynamic: the forced transfers of value from the colonialized/imperialized formations, and the intensification of capitalist relations within those formations. And if capitalism is not merely an externality but also a shaping force within those formations, then one must conclude also that the separation between the public and the private, so characteristic of capitalism, has occurred there as well, at least in some degree and especially among the urban intelligentsia which produces most of the written texts and is itself caught in the world of capitalist commodities. With this bifurcation must have come, at least for some producers of texts, the individuation and personalization of libidinal energies, the loss of access to ‘concrete’ experience, and the consequent experience of the self as an isolated, alienated entity incapable of real, organic connection with any collectivity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the developed argument in the earlier chapters about how Third World literature gets theorized; also parallels the alienation thesis running through modernist criticism this book is engaging. — connects to: Capitalism’s structure still rests on the public-private separation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 44; Modern capitalism created two overlapping worlds of territorial states and dispersed private property. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 50; Colonial formations internalize capitalism’s private-public split rather than escape it — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 413 (+2 more)

Related

• Colonial capitalism produced alienated private subjectivity inside the Third World too (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial formations internalize capitalism’s private-public split rather than escape it (similarity 0.92)
• Capitalism’s structure still rests on the public-private separation (similarity 0.82)
• Post-colonial states grew more differentiated and competitive, not more unified (similarity 0.80)
• Third World literary theory’s rise marked retreat from activist anti-imperialism (similarity 0.79)
• Modern capitalism created two overlapping worlds of territorial states and dispersed private property. (similarity 0.79)
• Postcolonial theory’s turn to representation displaced study of imperialist political economy (similarity 0.79)
• Poststructuralism’s rise in colonial literary theory conceals rather than explains its material-economic context (similarity 0.79)
• The world forms one contradictory capitalist unity, not three separate worlds (similarity 0.78)