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The Darker Nations
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zoe
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Enzo M
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“Reminds me of how washington bullets was written, giving a similarly global scope but rly leaving me wishing for much more depth in every chapter”
⭑ astha ⭑
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“vijay prashad strikes again lol. a more comprehensive version of “red star over the third world” and less focused on the soviet union but rather the non aligned position that many countries took instead. also one of my recommended marxist reads, but this is definitely not something you can read in one sitting lol”
Luna M
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“Prashad walks us through a history of the 20th century through a chronological study of liberatory movements across the global south. The book explores different pivotal moments by taking the reader on a tour of different cities in the Third World that played an important role in shaping struggles against colonialism. It is a fairly dense read and requires some baseline knowledge of politics, history, and prominent thinkers.
I would have given it 5 starts, but Prashad makes the pitiful decision to almost entirely exclude Palestine from his account, an extrication so exact that it could hardly have happened by accident. His longest mention (p. 167) reads: “…the Israeli state and its Arab neighbors went to war as the former came into existence.” This not only completely erases the Palestinian identity and characterizes in the most passive of terms the violence of the Nakba, but it contradicts the explicitly anticolonial thesis of the book.
Today, supporting Palestine carries a different kind of political capital than it did when this book was published in 2007, right after the Second Intifada. So today, when no self-respecting (leftist) intellectual could do otherwise, Prashad is— finally, overtly, unapologetically— pro-Palestine. That this shift in his public political commitments happens to coincide with the almost universal recognition of Palestine as a principled struggle for justice makes him at best an armchair revolutionary and at worst a coward.”
prismo
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“A really good and engaging postmortem of the "Third World Project" that aimed to lift the nascently independent darker nations from their pasts as former colonies, but which fell victim to a combination of disunity, reactionary movements, and the new world order led by amerika and enforced through its imperialist military and the IMF... I learned a lot about different national movements as well as how they came up short, and I highly recommend to anybody who is interested in the 3/4 of the world that were not in the 1st or 2nd world camps during the cold war!”
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