Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is treated as another zone of backward capitalism

Evidence

Meanwhile, the punishing logic of the capitalist market that is being imposed upon Eastern Europe roday is neither structurally different from nor less brutal than the logic that was imposed, say, in Egypt after Nasser or in Chile after the defeat of Unidad Popular. In other words, racism is certainly a considerable component in the ideologies and cultures of the imperialist countries but the logic which determines the exercise of their power is a capitalist logic, so that the reincorporated countries of Eastern Europe are being treated structurally, according ro their economic problems and capitalist potentials, much in the same way that Latin American countries or any other country of the zones of backward capitalism may be treated. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1327

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Ahmad’s project of reading ‘convergence’ claims as discourse-first moves obscuring material capitalist logic — exactly the reader’s lens, connecting to Spivak’s strategic essentialism bind and discourse determinism critiques. — connects to: Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292

Broader Connections

• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292