Prashad at Large

Authors

  • Paul Buhle

DOI:

 https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-065-08-2014-01_5

Keywords:

History, Imperialism

Abstract

Vijay Prashad,The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (New York: Verso, 2012), 280 pages, $26.95, paperback.Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali sets the tone in his introduction toThe Poorer Nations, arguing that the moment has arrived for scholars from the underdeveloped world of plundered resources and impoverished people to make the necessary statements themselves, rather than leaving that work to the first world left. Boutros-Ghali makes one other important point: that Prashad is hard at work rediscovering the hopes of earlier decades, the moment of anti-colonialist hopes, of common feeling among various nationalities and nations freeing themselves and looking forward to a kind of communitarian developmental process that was, often enough, called "socialism."

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Published

2014-01-05

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