Global anti-capitalist revolution retreated by the mid-1970s
Evidence
By the rime they had secured their teaching positions, the international situation itself had changed. In the metropolises, the Civil Rights Movement had been contained through patronage for segments of the Black petty bourgeoisie, the political content of the anti-war movement frittered away after the retreat of US troops from Vietnam, and Paris itself was normalized soon after the uprising. The cycles of economic recession and stagnation which set in during the early 1970s had the effect, furthermore, of putting the movements for social justice on the defensive. In the imperialized world, meanwhile, Chile was decisively beaten, Cuba conrained, China largely incorporated, and the wave of anti-capitalist revolutions was mainly over by the mid 1970s. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Iranian and Afghan revolutions of 1978-79 decisively ended the Left’s revolutionary decades — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 787; The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a global wave of revolution; The forces of capital returned globally by the late 1970s and reshaped the world (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- The forces of capital returned globally by the late 1970s and reshaped the world
#corroborates(0.90) - The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a global wave of revolution
#contradicts(0.85) - The 1970s marked the transition from postwar social-democratic settlement to the neoliberal global conjuncture.
#qualifies(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1198 - Post-1968 Western radicalism abandoned belief in domestic socialist revolution
#corroborates(0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 126 - A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975
#expands(0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 791