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Liberation from the Affluent Society: the Political Thought of the Third World Left in Post-war America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Liberation from the Affluent Society: the Political Thought of the Third World Left in Post-war America./
Author:	Feldman, Benjamin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	349 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-08A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28256757
ISBN:	9798557088022

Liberation from the Affluent Society: the Political Thought of the Third World Left in Post-war America.
Feldman, Benjamin.

Liberation from the Affluent Society: the Political Thought of the Third World Left in Post-war America. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 349 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation traces the full intellectual history of the Third World Turn: when theorists and activists in the United States began to look to liberation movements within the colonized and formerly colonized nations of the 'Third World' in search of models for political, social, and cultural transformation. I argue that, understood as a critique of the limits of New Deal liberalism rather than just as an offshoot of New Left radicalism, Third Worldism must be placed at the center of the history of the post-war American Left. Rooting the Third World Turn in the work of theorists active in the 1940s, including the economists Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran, the writer Harold Cruse, and the Detroit organizers James and Grace Lee Boggs, my work moves beyond simple binaries of violence vs. non-violence, revolution vs. reform, and utopianism vs. realism, while throwing the political development of groups like the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Third World Women's Alliance into sharper relief. Following developments in Third World thought beyond the end of the New Left, my dissertation further reveals the lasting impact of the Third World Left on academia, and recovers long-marginalized lines of economic inquiry not always associated with Third Worldism, including investigations into non-material economic incentives, and the various campaigns for welfare and Wages for Housework led by Marxist feminists in the 1970s. I argue that beyond solidarity, Third Worldism was a method of analysis through which Leftists sought to expand critical thought beyond the limits of political liberalism, economic liberalism, cultural liberalism, and racial liberalism. Armed with the conviction that American capitalism was sustained by cruelty, racism, and exploitation-but recognizing that no mass-revolutionary base existed in the United States-Third World Leftists studied revolutionary anti-colonial movements in order to try to break free from the 'one-dimensionality' of mid-century capitalism. Considering Third Worldism in this way heightens not only our understanding of a key moment in the history of the Left, but of the development of a series of critiques of the cultural, political, and economic contours of the 'New Deal Order.'.

ISBN: 9798557088022Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Black Power

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