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26 - Socialism and Colonialism

from Part II - Transversal Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Reinhart Kössler
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

Modern socialism and modern colonialism are coeval products of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries – a period of transition that in the West saw the formation of new political ideas and social theory, socialism among them. It was also a watershed for the West’s periphery. Emancipatory movements swept the American empires of Britain and Spain. Slavery in Haiti was overthrown in a revolution claiming universal human rights. The newly formed states in America spawned settlement projects of continental dimensions, epitomized in the US idea of Manifest Destiny, radicalized settler colonialism. British colonial conquest reached to India, southern Africa, and Australia; from the 1830s, France resumed expansion into Africa, beginning in Algeria.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 617 - 638
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Cooper, Frederick, Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Diarra, Abdoulaye, La Gauche française et l’Afrique subsaharienne. Colonisation, décolonisation, coopération (xixe–xxe siècles) (Paris: Karthala, 2014).Google Scholar
Gupta, Partha Sarathi, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964 (London: Macmillan, 1975).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hirsch, Steven and van der Walt, Lucien (eds.), Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940: The Praxis of Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution (Leiden: Brill, 2010).Google Scholar
Howe, Stephen, Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918–1964 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hyrkkänen, Markku, Sozialistische Kolonialpolitik. Eduard Bernsteins Stellung zur Kolonialpolitik und zum Imperialismus 1882–1914. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Revisionismus (Helsinki: SHS, 1986).Google Scholar

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