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Reinventing the left in the global South : the politics of the possible
\"This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, and most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-confident progressive movements. This 'new' democratic left includes parties and social movements that not only are avoiding the familiar pitfalls that ensnared socialists and social democrats in the twentieth century, but also are coping with the realities of the twenty-first century, especially neoliberal globalization. In analyzing and illustrating three innovative strategies - moderate social democracy, radical social-democratic transition to socialism, and Left populism - this study nudges the debate about the Left out of the well-worn grooves into which it has fallen in recent decades\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A History of the “Pernicious Foreigner”: Jean Meyer and the Re-writing of the Mexican Revolution During the Global Sixties
This article provides an intellectual history of Jean Meyer as an effort to shed light on the role that foreign historians played in the shaping of the Global Sixties in Mexico. His three-volume text composing La Cristiada (1972–74) has endured as one of the most cited and reprinted books in Mexican history, and to this day, its author has remained a hegemonic voice in Mexican academia. Yet little is known about the making of this groundbreaking book. In this effort, this article situates its methodology, revisionist arguments, and immediate perception in the political context of the era. It brings attention to Meyer’s rise in Mexican academia and examines the intellectual impact that three culminating events—the Cuban Revolution (1959), the progressive Catholicism of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), and the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968—had on his generation and in the shaping of the Global Sixties in Mexico.
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
In 1990, when renowned Indian Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik asked \"Whatever Happened to Imperialism?,\" once vibrant and influential schools of theories on imperialism were at a postwar historic low. When he left the West to return to India in 1974, imperialism was at the center of all Marxist discussions. But when, he came back to the West merely fifteen years later, however, imperialism already seemed out of fashion. The retreat from the question of imperialism has marked a return of what we can call Second International politics.
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Idealism beyond borders : the French revolutionary Left and the rise of humanitarianism, 1954-1988
\"This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape between the 1960s to 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical Left third-worldism was displaced by the 'sans-frontieriste' movement as the dominant way of approaching suffering in what was then called the Third World. Third-worldism regarded these regions as the motor for international revolution, but revolutionary zeal disintegrated as a number of its regimes took on violent and dictatorial forms. Instead, the radical humanitarianism of the 'sans-frontieriste' movement pioneered by Medecins Sans Frontieres emerged as an alternative model for international aid. Covering a period of major international upheavals and domestic change in France, Davey demonstrates the importance of memories of the Second World War in political activism and humanitarian action and underlines the powerful legacies of Cold War politics for international affairs since the fall of the Iron Curtain\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stuart Hall, Development Theory, and Thatcher's Britain
This article traces the influence of theories of Third World underdevelopment on Stuart Hall's understanding of the nature of historical transitions. I show Hall's notion of “articulation,” central to his social theory, is indebted to ideas about development originating in the global South, rather than to the thinking of “Western Marxists.” By arguing that Antonio Gramsci was a theorist of “articulation,” Hall read Gramsci as a thinker comparable to development theorists he was engaging with in the same period. This had important implications, I suggest, for Hall's “Gramscian” analyses of British politics in the 1980s. Specifically, I show that by describing Thatcherism as a form of “regressive modernization,” Hall adopted the idiom of several theories of economic development to argue that the uneven development of capitalist relations of production is the key to understanding how advanced forms of capitalist accumulation can accommodate seemingly archaic and reactionary social relations and institutions.
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Confronting the Youngest Revolution: Cuban Anti-Communists and the Global Politics of Youth in the Early 1960s
This article examines the transnational activism of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (Revolutionary Student Directorate, DRE), a group of exiled Cuban anti-Castro students. In the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, with CIA funding, the DRE attempted to challenge student support for the Cuban Revolution in Latin America and elsewhere in the global South. This article uses the DRE's trajectory to rethink the 1960s as a period of anti-communist, as well as leftist, youth ascendancy. It challenges the idea that Cuba garnered universal youth support, stressing instead that the Cuban Revolution helped turn student politics into a key battleground of the Cold War.
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In Search of the Asian Nation: Self-Determination, National Liberation, and the Asian American Movement
Though today \"Asian American\" marks a category that has been used to indicate a narrowly racial or cultural identity, at its inception in the late 1960s, Asian American was an idea of political community routed through the language of national liberation. The emergence of Asian American was facilitated through the appearance of revolutionary subjects on the global stage of Third Worldism, in which Asian indexed a new radical political subject. This paper traces debates within the Asian American Movement over the national question, elucidating a historical moment in which activists sought to define the structural position of Asians in the US in relation to a global struggle against capitalism and towards decolonization. Drawing from archival research and original oral history interviews, I argue that national question debates indexed the contradictions of integrating the US and Asia, race and class, reform and revolution, into a unified political program. Furthermore, I trace the evolution of the idea of Asian American self-determination from its revolutionary Third Worldist roots in the 1970s to forays into electoral and special interest politics in the 1980s, arguing that the two periods held more continuity with each other than rupture. I suggest that the US transition from Third Worldism to multiculturalism was overdetermined by the decline of national liberation movements and the introduction of market reforms in Asian socialist states.
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The New Left and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the United States
The youthful activists who made up the New Left during the 1960s were largely in accord in their opposition to the Vietnam War and their support for the black freedom movement. By contrast, they were deeply divided about how to approach the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some left-wing youth championed the Palestinian cause as another example of support for anti-imperialist struggles in the Third World. Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party (BPP), and famous Youth International Party (Yippie) figures Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin felt this way, as did certain members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Other members of the New Left balked at calling Israel an imperialist oppressor and pushed back, including some in SDS, but also groups like the Radical Zionist Alliance. The result was bitter conflict and invective that was worsened by the fact that left-wing Jews, who were present in disproportionately large numbers in the New Left, were represented on both sides of this issue.
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Las izquierdas europeas en la Conferencia Tricontinental
Este artículo estudia la relación de las izquierdas de Europa occidental con la Conferencia Tricontinental a través de la participación de algunos de sus representantes. Analiza quiénes acudieron y qué impacto tuvieron en sus organizaciones y militancias, con el objetivo de conocer cómo los debates revolucionarios, tercermundistas y antimperialistas emanados del evento cubano permearon aquellas izquierdas. La reconstrucción se realiza a través de archivos cubanos y estadounidenses, además de fuentes locales de los propios países, una documentación no contemplada en la literatura precedente.
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