Decolonization unfolded in distinct political phases across a thirty-year span

Evidence

A rough periodization is also possible. A very large number of sovereign states emerged in Asia and Africa during the first twenty years after the Second World War, mainly under the hegemony of the respective national bourgeoisies and subordinated ro regimes of advanced capital. The next decade, 196 5-7 5, was dominated by the wars of national liberation which had a distinctly socialistic trajecrory, even though the level of prior economic development and the scale of imperialist devastations preempted the possibility that socialist construction would have a reasonable chance. These two phases of the anti-colonial movements were over by the mid 1970s, and the revolutions which broke out in the next few years occurred mainly in countries which had not been directly colonized- Iran, Ethiopia, Afghanistanand regardless of their respective rhetOricseither of Islam or of communism - the essential histOric function of these revolutions was ro dismantle the structures of the antecedent monarchical regimes and replace them with regimes of the modern, professional salariat and those sectors of the merchants’ capital which had previously been repressed by the monarcho-bourgeoisie. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 136

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar decolonization swept away direct colonial rule across three continents — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1776; Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 315; Decolonization dissolved empire-specific protected markets into a single global market — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1337

Broader Connections

• Postwar decolonization swept away direct colonial rule across three continents #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1776
• Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 315
• Decolonization dissolved empire-specific protected markets into a single global market #expands (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1337