1st Edition

The Comintern and the Global South Global Designs/Local Encounters

Edited By Anne Garland Mahler, Paolo Capuzzo Copyright 2023
258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism. Building on extant institutional histories of the Third International, it moves in new directions by focusing on the points of... Read more

Part 1: Global Designs: The Comintern Imaginary

Introduction: The Comintern and the Global South—Global Designs/Local Encounters

Paolo Capuzzo and Anne Garland Mahler

Chapter One: Into the World Market: Karl Marx and the Theoretical Foundation of Internationalism

Sandro Mezzadra

Chapter Two: Before Baku: The Second International and the Debate on Race and Colonialism

Lorenzo Costaguta

Chapter Three: Communism and the Colour Line: Reflections on Black Bolshevism

Christian HØgsbjerg

Part 2: Local Encounters: Confluences and Conflicts

Chapter Four: Via Kabul: Muhajirs turned Early Communists from India (1915–1923)
Suchetana Chattopadhyay

Chapter Five: Pandurang Khankhoje and the Free Schools of Agriculture: |Campesino Internationalism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Daniel Kent-Carrasco

Chapter Six: An Atlantic Revolutionary Brotherhood: Radical Networks, Local Realities, and the Challenges to the Comintern's Global Domain in the Caribbean Basin, 1920–1935 

Sandra Pujals

Chapter Seven: Pan-Islamism, South Asia, and Communist Internationalism

Ali Raza

Chapter Eight: Chinese Internationalism during the Spanish Civil War: The Party, the Volunteers and the Anarchists

Gaia Perini

Index

Biography

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018). She is director of Global South Studies and lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (forthcoming). 

Paolo Capuzzo is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna. His current fields of research are the history of material culture, Global Communism, and Gramsci. Capuzzo is the author of Culture del consumo (2006), the co-editor, with S. Pons, of Gramsci nel movimento comunista internazionale (2019); and the co-author, with Partha Chatterjee and Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, of Gramsci in India (forthcoming).