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

Description: Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia by Harry Verhoeven This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 not simply mimic the ideas and institutions of Soviet or European Marxists, but endeavoured to define their own, experimenting with a variety of interpretations and in the process adapting doctrines and templates to their unique contexts. This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on three great challenges which various types of socialists in Africa and Asia have had to simultaneously contend with in their articulations of liberation: how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making. In a post-colonial world, this helps centre a key question running through the different chapters: what can African and Asian imaginaries, institutions and practices tell us about socialism as a global phenomenon?The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. Author 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. Table of Contents 1. What is to be done? Rethinking socialism(s) and socialist legacies in a postcolonial world 2. Indonesian socialism of the 1950s: from ideology to rhetoric 3. Trade union education in former French Africa (1959–1965): ideological transmission and the role of French and Italian communists 4. Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses 5. Left turn to legalism: fact-finding inquiries as political critique in 1970s India 6. Free to decide their destiny? Indigenous resistance to external forms of socialist modernity in Siad Barres Somalia 7. The party and the gun: African liberation, Asian comrades and socialist political technologies 8. Just another African country: socialism, capitalism and temporality in Mozambique 9. Indonesias missing Left and the Islamisation of dissent 10. The legacies of Marx and Lenin in Vietnam: a historical and regional perspective 11. Ambivalent successes, magnificent failures and historical afterlives: a postscript to Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia Details ISBN1032130792 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 1032130792 ISBN-13 9781032130798 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-11-30 UK Release Date 2021-11-30 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-11-30 NZ Release Date 2021-11-30 Pages 196 Author Harry Verhoeven Subtitle Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies Edited by Harry Verhoeven Series ThirdWorlds DEWEY 335.0096 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Routledge Alternative 9781032130804 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134922240;

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