Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc

Evidence

In the post-colonial states where the nationalism of the national bourgeoisie had been expected to work all kinds of wonders, one witnessed, on the one hand, enormous consolidation of the national bourgeoisie itself, with its ability to take hold of the Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South dialogue over terms of trade; and, on the other, the stagnation, increasing dependence, dictatorial brutality, religious millenarianism, and general fracturings of polity and society - despite, and frequently because of, imperialist aid, investment and patronage. The anticolonial content had been realized already; what remained of this nationalism seemed either to evaporate or to cause havoc. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Confirms Ahmad’s materialist frame that postcolonial nationalism served the national bourgeoisie — bears on the reader’s question of whether strategic essentialism’s nationalist variant was historically the vehicle of a class project. — connects to: A strong national bourgeoisie made decolonization quicker and smoother — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 139; Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 272; Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 265 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated #corroborates (0.90) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 272
• Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 265
• Third-worldist nationalism regresses from the Marxist critique it displaces #corroborates (0.80)
• Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide #responds-to (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116
• Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects #qualifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 446