Third-worldist nationalism regresses from the Marxist critique it displaces

Evidence

Ifin 1968 the epoch had seemed to belong to the revolutionary vanguard, it seemed to belong now, as the 1980s dawned, to the national bourgeoisie. Radical thought in the universities paid irs homage to this new consolidation of the post-colonial national bourgeoisies by shifting irs focus, decisively, from socialist revolution to Third- Worldisr nationalism - first in political theory, then in its literary reflections. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 272 (#expands, via linked claim)

Lal (1978, 10) argued that the rhetoric of equality mobilized by Third World states as a justification for the NIEO in part “represents the transfer of the Marxist notion of class and class warfare to the international scene.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1824 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 150; Rejecting Marxism reframed colonial conflict as nations and culture, not classes and capital; Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 272 (+7 more)

Related

• Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated (similarity 0.90)
• Third World NIEO rhetoric reworked Marxist class struggle onto global relations (similarity 0.89)
• Rejecting Marxism reframed colonial conflict as nations and culture, not classes and capital (similarity 0.84)
• Three Worlds Theory subordinated mass movements to national-bourgeois states (similarity 0.84)
• Poststructuralist Third World theory arose as a substitute for failed nationalist ideology (similarity 0.84)
• The ‘Third World Literature’ category originated amid socialist retreat and bourgeois-nationalist resurgence. (similarity 0.83)
• Poststructuralist debunking of nationalism succeeded Third-Worldist nationalism as the dominant academic counter-canon (similarity 0.83)
• Third World literary theory effaces Marxism-rooted radical cultural heritage (similarity 0.83)
• Poststructural literary theory’s nationalism critique tracked the national-bourgeois state’s rise and fall (similarity 0.82)
• Third World literary theory’s rise marked retreat from activist anti-imperialism (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural nationalism remains the constitutive ideology of Third World literary theory. (similarity 0.81)
• Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc (similarity 0.81)
• Claims that homogenize ‘Third World Literature’ obscure the imperialist-determined fortunes of its producing bourgeoisie (similarity 0.81)
• The category ‘Third World’ has polemical but no theoretical status (similarity 0.81)
• Third-Worldist cultural theory structurally suppresses class and gender analysis (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 272
• Third World NIEO rhetoric reworked Marxist class struggle onto global relations #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1824