Postcolonial Anglo-American academy discourse erased a structural split between revolutionary and national-bourgeois decolonization.
Evidence
The Vietnam War was, of course, the central fact of the whole of this second phase, but the phase had two distinct and principal aspects: revolutionary wars of national liberation, mainly in countries of Indochina and Southern Africa, on the one hand; and, on the other, the consolidation of the national-bourgeois state in the majority of the Asian and African states that had been newly constituted as sovereign nations, where the expanding dynamic of global capitalism was bringing unprecedented growth and wealth to the newly dominant classes. This fundamental distincrion between the revolutionary project in the countries under siege and of national-bourgeois consolidation in the rest was often erased from the dissenting ideologies that arose in the Anglo- American academyexcept, of course, in those relatively small groups that had Marxist leanings or communist affiliation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 177
Categorization
- XREF: Directly supports the reader’s thesis that Ahmad’s materialist account separates the revolutionary project from national-bourgeois consolidation — the structural distinction ‘erased’ by the discourse-determinist academic left. — connects to: Discourse-first reading erases Cabral’s actual armed anti-colonial struggle. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 853; Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 150; The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 146 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc
#expands(0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 150 - The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse
#exemplifies(0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146 - Postcolonial theory replaced rigid East-West opposition with hybrid, permeable identity discourse.
#contradicts(0.72) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 88