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Locating Legacies: ’The Cold War’ with Vijay Prashad

Radicals in Conversation

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The Impact of the Cold War on the Decolonial Struggle

Stuart Hall in familiar stranger writes about the formation of what he called the new left. He talks about a hope that third-world leaders such as Nehru and Karuma Sakano would create the power to constitute a third force in global politics. In his view that positive neutralism at least in his view came to grief on the rocks of the remorseless politics of international polarization, says Peter Bergen. There was no revolution taking place in very poor countries in the Tsarist Empire they took place in China extraordinarily poor you know even India's literacy rate after 300 years of colonialism was 13%.

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