High growth alongside apartheid repression disproved the liberal contradiction thesis
Evidence
Whereas the first phase of liberal analysis took place against the backdrop of mixed economic performance in South Africa during the 1950s, this new surge of interest in a Marxist approach must be seen in the context of the exceptional economic growth rates sustained during the late 1960s, in tandem with the intensification of apartheid repression - a combination which seemed prima facie evidence of the falsity of the liberal case. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 563
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- CANDY: Compact and counterintuitive: the very fact that economic growth and racial oppression rose together is what killed the claim they were contradictory. Nice for explaining why Marxists gained ground.
Related
- Apartheid’s prosperity during repression discredited the liberal contradiction thesis (similarity 0.94)
- Economic structure explains racial dynamics only as necessary conditions, never sufficient ones. (similarity 0.79)
- Liberal anti-apartheid scholarship rested on faith in modernization theory, not demonstration (similarity 0.79)
- Marxist scholars constructed the liberal position on apartheid as a rival to critique (similarity 0.78)