Weak indigenous bourgeoisies force anti-colonial struggle through race-based guerrilla alliances.
Evidence
On the whole, decolonization came more quickly and more smoothly where the national bourgeoisie was firmly in the saddle, and the process was sometimes speeded up where there was even the prospect of further radicalization. … In Kenya, for example, where the formation of an indigenous bourgeoisie had been obstructed by the growth of modern farming owned directly by the British and of a trading class composed mainly of foreign (notably Indian) strata, guerrilla warfare was organized through an alliance of the educated middle class and the subordinated farming communities, in which the issue of race provided the main ideological cement. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 53
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to theories of bourgeois-led nationalism and the class basis of anti-colonial movements — echoes of Fanon and classical Marxist debates on national bourgeoisie. — connects to: Kenyan guerrilla war arose where foreign ownership blocked an indigenous bourgeoisie — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 139