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Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies book cover

1st Edition

Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies

Edited By Harry Verhoeven Copyright 2022
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathers of postcolonial republics believed socialism could transform their societies. Yet what socialism meant in theory and in practice has always been highly heterogeneous and differed markedly from the European experience. African and Asian movements did... Read more

1. ‘What is to be done?’ Rethinking socialism(s) and socialist legacies in a postcolonial world

Harry Verhoeven

2. Indonesian socialism of the 1950s: from ideology to rhetoric

Kevin W. Fogg

3. Trade union education in former French Africa (1959–1965): ideological transmission and the role of French and Italian communists

Gabriele Siracusano

4. Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses

Mohammed Turki Alsudairi

5. Left turn to legalism: fact-finding inquiries as political critique in 1970s India

Ankita Pandey

6. Free to decide their destiny? Indigenous resistance to external forms of socialist modernity in Siad Barre’s Somalia

Radoslav Yordanov

7. The party and the gun: African liberation, Asian comrades and socialist political technologies

Harry Verhoeven

8. ‘Just another African country’: socialism, capitalism and temporality in Mozambique

Jason Sumich

9. Indonesia’s missing Left and the Islamisation of dissent

Vedi R. Hadiz

10. The legacies of Marx and Lenin in Vietnam: a historical and regional perspective

Tuong Vu

11. Ambivalent successes, magnificent failures and historical afterlives: a postscript to Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia

Julia C. Strauss

Biography

Harry Verhoeven is Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network. His books include Why Comrades Go to War (with Philip Roessler), Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan and Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean (with Anatol Lieven). He is Senior Adviser to the European Institute of Peace.

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