Settler-decimated or sidelined bourgeoisies let colonial struggles converge with socialist revolution

Evidence

The next decade then witnessed the most intense and prolonged revolutionary wars in those zones of traditional colonialism - notably in Indochina and Southern Africawhere the nascent bourgeoisie, such as it was, had been sidelined by the socialist Left and the colonial question therefore converged with socialist revolution. … As a historical abstraction, however, and essentially for analytic purposes, we may say that while the first two decades of this period gave rise to a very large number of sovereign regimes of the national bourgeoisie (the fact that such a regime arose in India was, after all, as decisive as the fact that it did not in China), the next decade, 1965-75, was a phase predominantly of the revolutionary wars of national liberation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 141

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Socialist revolutions required sidelining the national bourgeoisie during anti-colonial struggle — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 89; A failed bourgeois revolution stems from economic weakness and historical timing — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 483; The American bourgeois revolution featured slaveholding leaders and lagged France by a century

Broader Connections

• A failed bourgeois revolution stems from economic weakness and historical timing #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 483