The American Left never organized demands for reparations to Vietnam
Evidence
Vietnam was simply left with little more than hunger and horror to redistribute, and with no power, not even remotely, to seek as much as an iota of reparations. It is a measure of how much the American Left has needed to suppress the memory of Vietnam in the process of normalizing itself into a professionally responsible stratum that it organized no movement of any proportions either to demand from its state that it undertake reparations or to mobilize resources from the citizenry to help rebuild what their rulers and armies had destroyed so utterly. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 49
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: what the US Left did NOT do after Vietnam — reparations as a forgotten moral debt compared with postwar reconstruction efforts elsewhere.
- XREF: connects to: Vietnam’s failure had no domestic American impact because it was not a real defeat — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 130; The American Left normalization suppressed demands for Vietnam reparations. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 132