The 1960s metropolitan Left wrongly conflated anti-colonialism with domestic social progress.
Evidence
Because the last decade of even that period was dominated by revolutionary movements which had combined their anti-colonialism with programmes of fundamental transformation for their own polities, it was mistakenly assumed by the metropolitan Left which came of age during the 1960s that progressive social change at home was intrinsic to anti-colonial nationalism as such. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 56
Related
- A domestic-focused metropolitan Left has abandoned the core socialist project of anti-imperialism (similarity 0.82)
- The New Left crystallized in 1967-68 after divergent national origins (similarity 0.80)
- Said’s career bridged liberal academia and avant-garde theory on an anti-Marxist basis (similarity 0.80)
- Theory’s ideological shifts track the real fortunes of decolonized states (similarity 0.80)
- Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated (similarity 0.80)
- Post-1968 Western radicalism abandoned belief in domestic socialist revolution (similarity 0.80)
- French colonial wars, not Asian revolutions, first radicalized the metropolitan intelligentsia (similarity 0.79)
- Socialist revolutions required sidelining the national bourgeoisie during anti-colonial struggle (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-colonial critique before Said was overwhelmingly Marxist-affiliated (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-war movements reduced socialism to anti-colonial nationalism (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalist modernity cannot be understood from its internal dynamics alone (similarity 0.78)