Colonized nations lack the shared circuits that unify advanced capitalist cultures.

Evidence

Peru and India simply do not have a common history of the sort that Germany and France, or Britain and the United Stares, have; not even the singular ‘experience of colonialism and imperialism’ has been in specific ways the same or similar in, say, India and Namibia. These various countries, from the three continents, have been assimilated into the global structure of capitalism not as a single cultural ensemble bur highly differentially, each establishing its own circuits of (unequal) exchange with the metropolis, each acquiring its own very distinct class formations. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 403

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Third World countries lack the cultural homogeneity that binds advanced capitalist nations — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 165

Broader Connections