Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond - Softcover

Saul, John S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868144682 ISBN 13: 9781868144686

Publisher: Wits University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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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About the Author

John S. Saul is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science at Toronto's York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1868144682
• ISBN 13: 9781868144686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240