Metropolitan leftists suppressed memory of Soviet-backed anti-colonial victories

Evidence

As the metropolitan Left came to shelve its identifications with post-revolutionary societies of Indochina and Southern Africa, that memory, and what it had meant for the oppressed peoples of Asia and Africa, was simply suppressed; the subsequent Gorbachev years were to help that willed amnesia greatly. What remained was the memory only of the failures, the distortions, the bureaucratization; that there had also been other kinds of solidarities no longer mattered. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 149

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how selective historical memory of the ‘Soviet decades’ shaped today’s discourse-first postcolonial theory by erasing the material backers of Third World liberation.
• XREF: connects to: The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 146; Political memory is selectively suppressed to erase a history of socialist solidarity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 57; A domestic-focused metropolitan Left has abandoned the core socialist project of anti-imperialism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 595 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Political memory is selectively suppressed to erase a history of socialist solidarity. #corroborates (0.90) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 57
• A domestic-focused metropolitan Left has abandoned the core socialist project of anti-imperialism #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595
• The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse #corroborates (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146