[lbo-talk] Aijaz Ahmad interview

[John E. Norem]

/Aijaz Ahmad is a leading Marxist intellectual and academic based in New 
Delhi, India. He has written widely on political and cultural theory, 
colonialism, and imperialism, and has taught in a number of universities 
in India and the West. Among his many books are In Theory: Classes, 
Nations, Literatures; Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in 
Contemporary South Asia; and Afghanistan, Iraq and the Imperialism of 
Our Time. He is a frequent contributor to the Indian magazine Frontline, 
for which he has written several articles on political developments in 
Latin America. NACLA editorial committee member Seemin Qayum interviewed 
Ahmad on the occasion of NACLA’s 40th anniversary./

/What is the significance of Latin American political, cultural, and 
theoretical developments for intellectuals and activists of your 
generation?/

The Cuban revolution was one of the key events in the political 
formation of my generation, just as the overthrow of the Allende 
government in 1973 was in its negative impact a decisive moment in the 
history of the global Marxist left. The more recent Latin American 
developments have been seen in India as both a certain return to what 
one might call “the Cuban moment,” but also the rise of a very different 
kind of left. My own writings on Latin America have been designed 
strictly for an Indian readership and try to grapple with just what this 
new left, in all its variations, is...

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