The Global Impacts of Russia’s Great War and Revolution, Book 2: The Wider Arc of Revolution, Part 2. Choi Chatterjee, Steven G. Marks, Mary Neuburger, and Steven Sabol, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2019
Asianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transp... more Asianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transposition of Marxian ideas to non-European countries. When revolution came to East, events contradicted the ideology. The Bolshevik revolution seemed to deny Marx’s famous dictum of ‘the country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.’ Based on a divergent mode of capitalist development from the ‘West’, the Russian revolution represented ‘a revolution against Karl Marx’s Capital.’ However, revolution in Russia was not a derivative one wherein the historical authenticity of the Marxian revolution in the developed capitalist countries is tested. Viewed from entangled histories of capitalism, colonialism, nationalism and socialism as competing visions of the global modernity, the Bolshevik revolution was the field of political contests of those competing visions. As the development of the global socialism showed in the twentieth century, socialism was not consequent to capitalism but constitutive of it. Confronting subaltern everydayness, all that solid division of the revolution and counterrevolution, and colonial modernity and national subjectivity melts into the air. This is to trace the socialist revolution moving to East from the combined optic of the global modernity and local everydayness with a spatial stress on Asia.
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Während der Nationalismus seine Begründung früher in Heldengeschichten des unbesiegbaren Volkes fand, schöpfen heute weltweit immer mehr Staaten und Nationen ihr Selbstbewusstsein aus einer Opfergeschichte – und leiten daraus einen Status ab, der sogar vererbt werden soll.
Mit vergleichendem Blick auf Polen, Deutschland, Israel, Japan und Südkorea zeigt Jie-Hyun Lim scharfsinnig, welche Probleme ein solcher Opfernationalismus mit sich bringt, wenn er sich als Machtpolitik formiert: Vergangenheit wird verfälscht, die Opfer selbst werden mitunter unsichtbar gemacht und Herrschaft legitimiert. Indem er dabei konsequent die Perspektive vom europäischen Zentrum löst und in den Globalen Osten verlagert, wird deutlich, wie die historischen Katastrophen im Gedenken weltweit in Beziehung gesetzt und abgeglichen werden, sich erklären und in Konkurrenz zueinander geraten.
In seinen wegweisenden Überlegungen entwirft Lim die Grundzüge für einen globalen Erinnerungsraum, der auf Anteilnahme und Diversität beruht und zugleich historisch trennscharf bleibt. Ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag für die Debatten um eine Geschichtspolitik der Zukunft in der postkolonialen Welt.
configured in relationship to the other in the discursive context of the “problem."....
space.”
aware of the intrinsic value of the national language and national culture. Her concept of territorial autonomy stood on a broader scale than even the Austro-Marxists' concept of cultural autonomy. In the final instance, however, she failed to advance to the dialectical recognition of evolutionary internationalism and social patriotism because of a deeply rooted anti-PPS schematism in practice and proletarian solipsism in theory. Rosa didn't recognize ultimately what the right of national self-determination meant to the mass of oppressed nationalities. That is why Luxemburgism has no good
reputation among Marxists of peripheral countries still strug-
gling with the national question. Rosa's universalist stance of
Enlightened Marxism, however, implies a valuable criticism of
the Third Worldly socialism, what may be termed 'Fanonism' degenerated into populist socialism. I suggest that Luxemburgism's historical evaluation should be freed from the international nihilist view of some rightist social patriots and the Eurocentric view of classical and contemporary Western Marxists.
entanglements of the triple victimhood- the Holocaust, the crimes
of colonialism, and Stalinist terror- on a global scale. The thaw of
frozen memories in the post-Cold War era released the oppressed
memories of Stalinist terror and Nazi collaboration in Eastern
Europe. In the tri-continent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the
fall of communism also signalled the release of suppressed
memories of the atrocities perpetrated by colonial powers. The
mnemonic confluence of the triple victimhood, often with the
Holocaust as a memory template, merged the divided memory
space of the bipolar Cold War system into a single global memory
formation. This essay will place the temporal focus on the post-
Cold War era with its spatial dimension of the global memory
space. Against the model of the cosmopolitanization of the
Holocaust, Jie-Hyun Lim argues for the non-hierarchical
comparability of the triple vicimhood, exploring global memory
formation from the postcolonial perspective. He concludes this
essay by suggesting the “critical relativization” and “radical
juxtaposition” as ways of both de-hegemonizing and deterritorializing
historical memories.
Während der Nationalismus seine Begründung früher in Heldengeschichten des unbesiegbaren Volkes fand, schöpfen heute weltweit immer mehr Staaten und Nationen ihr Selbstbewusstsein aus einer Opfergeschichte – und leiten daraus einen Status ab, der sogar vererbt werden soll.
Mit vergleichendem Blick auf Polen, Deutschland, Israel, Japan und Südkorea zeigt Jie-Hyun Lim scharfsinnig, welche Probleme ein solcher Opfernationalismus mit sich bringt, wenn er sich als Machtpolitik formiert: Vergangenheit wird verfälscht, die Opfer selbst werden mitunter unsichtbar gemacht und Herrschaft legitimiert. Indem er dabei konsequent die Perspektive vom europäischen Zentrum löst und in den Globalen Osten verlagert, wird deutlich, wie die historischen Katastrophen im Gedenken weltweit in Beziehung gesetzt und abgeglichen werden, sich erklären und in Konkurrenz zueinander geraten.
In seinen wegweisenden Überlegungen entwirft Lim die Grundzüge für einen globalen Erinnerungsraum, der auf Anteilnahme und Diversität beruht und zugleich historisch trennscharf bleibt. Ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag für die Debatten um eine Geschichtspolitik der Zukunft in der postkolonialen Welt.
configured in relationship to the other in the discursive context of the “problem."....
space.”
aware of the intrinsic value of the national language and national culture. Her concept of territorial autonomy stood on a broader scale than even the Austro-Marxists' concept of cultural autonomy. In the final instance, however, she failed to advance to the dialectical recognition of evolutionary internationalism and social patriotism because of a deeply rooted anti-PPS schematism in practice and proletarian solipsism in theory. Rosa didn't recognize ultimately what the right of national self-determination meant to the mass of oppressed nationalities. That is why Luxemburgism has no good
reputation among Marxists of peripheral countries still strug-
gling with the national question. Rosa's universalist stance of
Enlightened Marxism, however, implies a valuable criticism of
the Third Worldly socialism, what may be termed 'Fanonism' degenerated into populist socialism. I suggest that Luxemburgism's historical evaluation should be freed from the international nihilist view of some rightist social patriots and the Eurocentric view of classical and contemporary Western Marxists.
entanglements of the triple victimhood- the Holocaust, the crimes
of colonialism, and Stalinist terror- on a global scale. The thaw of
frozen memories in the post-Cold War era released the oppressed
memories of Stalinist terror and Nazi collaboration in Eastern
Europe. In the tri-continent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the
fall of communism also signalled the release of suppressed
memories of the atrocities perpetrated by colonial powers. The
mnemonic confluence of the triple victimhood, often with the
Holocaust as a memory template, merged the divided memory
space of the bipolar Cold War system into a single global memory
formation. This essay will place the temporal focus on the post-
Cold War era with its spatial dimension of the global memory
space. Against the model of the cosmopolitanization of the
Holocaust, Jie-Hyun Lim argues for the non-hierarchical
comparability of the triple vicimhood, exploring global memory
formation from the postcolonial perspective. He concludes this
essay by suggesting the “critical relativization” and “radical
juxtaposition” as ways of both de-hegemonizing and deterritorializing
historical memories.
dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his
country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its
Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist
Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between
Korean and Polish history and politics. One realization stood out:
Both Korea and Poland—at once the “West” for Asia yet “Eastern”
Europe—had been assigned the role of “East.”
This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history
from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory,
Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.
He draws out commonalities in their experiences of modernity,
in their transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and in the
shaping of collective memory. Ranging across Poland, Germany,
Israel, Japan, and Korea, Lim traces the global history of how
notions of victimhood have become central to nationalism. He
criticizes mass dictatorships of right and left in the Global Easts,
considering Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s notion of sovereign dictatorship
and the concept of decisionist democracy. Lim argues
that nationalism is inherently transnational, critiquing how the
nationalist imagination of the Global East has influenced countries
across borders.
Theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative, this
book sheds new light on the transnational complexity of historical
memory and imagination, the boundaries between democracy
and mass dictatorship, and the fluidity of East and West.