Sri Lanka has witnessed a major political shift in recent months. Anura Kumara Dissanayake of…
The Emerging Left in the Emerging World Jayati Ghosh
In this article, the author reviews several features of emerging left movements in Latin America, Africa and developing Asia that suggest a move away from some traditional ideas associated with socialist theory and practice even as there are two important areas of continuity with the leftist thinking of the past.
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(The article was originally published in EPW Vol XLVII No.24, June 16 2012.)