Post-colonial states grew more differentiated and competitive, not more unified

Evidence

The key fact about the post-colonial history of this so-called Third World is that each nation-state came under the dominance of a distinct national bourgeoisie (existing or emergent) as it emerged from the colonial crucible and was then assigned a specific location in the international division of labour as it is organized by imperialism, so that the period has come to be characterized not by greater unity but by increasing differentiation and even competitiveness among these states. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 29

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 81; Colonizing states manufactured internal homogeneity while colonial states managed difference — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1721

Related

• Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. (similarity 0.96)
• The Third World has continually collapsed into competing national units (similarity 0.84)
• Postcolonial states inherit colonial divisions that block formation of civic unity (similarity 0.82)
• Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc (similarity 0.81)
• Theory’s ideological shifts track the real fortunes of decolonized states (similarity 0.80)
• State-centered nationalism is no longer a viable anti-imperialist answer (similarity 0.80)
• Colonizing states manufactured internal homogeneity while colonial states managed difference (similarity 0.80)
• Modern historical processes like industrialization and nation-state dominance stabilized collective identities (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial capitalism produces the same public-private split it creates in the First World (similarity 0.80)
• The world forms one contradictory capitalist unity, not three separate worlds (similarity 0.80)
• Third-worldist nationalism regresses from the Marxist critique it displaces (similarity 0.79)
• Three Worlds Theory subordinated mass movements to national-bourgeois states (similarity 0.79)
• A strong national bourgeoisie made decolonization quicker and smoother (similarity 0.78)
• Postwar capitalist expansion, not decolonization, decisively shaped global contradictions. (similarity 0.78)
• Rejecting Marxism reframed colonial conflict as nations and culture, not classes and capital (similarity 0.78)