Three Worlds Theory subordinated mass movements to national-bourgeois states
Evidence
It is significant that the Theory was advanced precisely at the point when states of the national bourgeoisie had already emerged and were consolidating themselves, frequently through a mix of strong state sectors with generalized private enterprise, in a number of the newly independent countries. An ideological formation which redefined anti-imperialism not as a socialist project to be realized by the mass movements of the popular classes but as a developmentalist project to be realized by the weaker states of the national bourgeoisies in the course of their collaborative competition with the more powerful states of advanced capital served the interest both of making the mass movements subservient to the national bourgeois state and of strengthening the negotiating positions of that type of state in relation to the states and corporate entities of advanced capital. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1260
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 272; Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development