Joanna
John E. Norem wrote:
>/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./
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>/What is the significance of Latin American political, cultural, and
>theoretical developments for intellectuals and activists of your
>generation?/
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>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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