Post-Soviet ‘convergence’ of sorts happened only via dismantling the Soviet state

Evidence

4. Edward W Said, Orienta/ism, (New York: Vintage, 1979), p. 104. 5. The paradox in discussing the issue of ‘convergence’ now, after the restructurings of recent years, is of course that a convergence o(sorts - a capitulation, really - has indeed taken place, but only after the systematic dismanding of that specific Soviet state which had been portrayed at that time as the imperialist superpower and an alter ego of the United States in the logic of global exterminism. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1544

Categorization

• XREF: Weighs the discursive framing of superpowers (Jameson’s exterminism logic) against the material reality of the Soviet collapse - reinforcing the reader’s sense of Ahmad’s materialist counter to discourse analysis. — connects to: Populations abandoned Soviet socialism only after reform movements were crushed — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 42; Soviet collapse was elite-driven, not a product of mass protest — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 109

Broader Connections

• Populations abandoned Soviet socialism only after reform movements were crushed #qualifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 42