Decolonization and empire : contesting the rhetoric and practice of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond

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Decolonization and empire : contesting the rhetoric and practice of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond

John S. Saul

Merlin Press , Wits University Press, 2008

  • Merlin
  • Wits University

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Contesting the rhetoric and reality of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond

Contesting the rhetoric and practice of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond

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"First published 2008 in India by Three Essays Collective"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

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Merlin ISBN 9780850365924

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Approaching the subjects of empire and colonization in a new light, this survey states that the free global market and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization are actually recolonizing Southern Africa. This polemic argues that the unalloyed working of capitalism--the manufacture and exacerbation of a hierarchy that enlarges the gap between the rich and the poor--is self-creating and self-sustaining. It is also locked into place by governments and their institutions, leaving no space for an alternative structure. Those increasingly unable to defend themselves against the free global market have been recolonized into this capitalist system.
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Wits University ISBN 9781868144686

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In this book John Saul examines the grim reality of post liberation southern Africa and also the forms of resistance that the re-subordination of the continent now calls for. In the process he exposes and contests the rhetoric that serves as apologia for the 'Empire of Capital', and shows the linkages between inequalities and injustices reinforced by the 'free' market on the one hand and, on the other, by the assertive religiosity and ethnic messianism that the 'Empire' helps to emerge and then uses as 'justification' for renewed imperialist intervention. His book makes a significant contribution to the discussion on Imperialism and resistance to it in the present day. John Saul tells this story forcefully with reference to southern Africa and 'its struggle against white colonial overlord ship and authoritarian capitalist imposition'. The first part evokes both the decolonization of southern Africa and its grim recolonization. The book then moves on to critique the ideologues of empire and to mark the emergence of new struggles against the new subordination in southern Africa and elsewhere, to discuss their contours and assess their possibilities. The book asserts the relevance of socialism as the only real alternative to the logic of empire and the marketplace.

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