Title Red internationalism : anti-imperialism and human rights in the global sixties and seventies / Salar Mohandesi

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations Series Human rights in history Human rights in history. Contents Introduction -- Overture. Lenin's shadow -- Internationalism -- Anti-imperialism -- Revolution -- Repression -- Crisis -- Human rights -- Coda. return of the repressed Summary "For readers who are interested in the history of leftism, imperialism, human rights, internationalism, anti-imperialism, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties. Of interest to those who wish to learn about prior attempts to change the world, why those internationalist projects failed, and why the present looks the way that it does"-- Provided by publisher "In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of the transnational left's most transformative years. In the 1960s, radicals mobilized ideas from the early twentieth century to reinvent a critique of imperialism that promised not only to end the war but also to overthrow the global system that made such wars possible. Focusing on encounters between French, American, and Vietnamese radicals, Mohandesi explores how their struggles did change the world, but in unexpected ways that allowed human rights to increasingly displace anti-imperialism as the dominant idiom of internationalism. When anti-imperialism collapsed in the 1970s, human rights emerged as a hegemonic alternative channeling anti-imperialism's aspirations while rejecting systemic change. Approaching human rights as neither transhistorical truth nor cynical imperialist ruse but instead as a symptom of anti-imperialism's epochal crisis, Red Internationalism dramatizes a shift that continues to affect prospects for emancipatory political change in the future." -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2023) Subject Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century Human rights -- History -- 20th century World politics -- 1945-1989. Anti-imperialist movements Human rights World politics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009076128 1009076124

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