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- Title
"Subaltern Nationalism" and the West Berlin Anti-Authoritarians.
- Authors
Hosek, Jennifer Ruth
- Abstract
The West Berlin anti-authoritarians around Rudi Dutschke employed a notion of subaltern nationalism inspired by independence struggles in the global South and particularly by post 1959 Cuba to legitimate their loosely understood plans to recreate West Berlin as a revolutionary island. Responding to Che Guevara's call for many Vietnams, they imagined this Northern metropolis as a Focus spreading socialism of the third way throughout Europe, a conception that united their local and global aims. In focusing on their interpretation of societal changes and structures in Cuba, the anti-authoritarians deemphasized these plans' potential for violence. As a study of West German leftists in transnational context, this article suggests the limitations of confining analyses of their projects within national or Northern paradigms. As a study of the influence of the global South on the North in a non-(post)colonial situation, it suggests that such influence is greater than has heretofore been understood.
- Subjects
BERLIN (Germany : West); GERMANY (West); LEFT-wing extremists; TRANSNATIONALISM; DUTSCHKE, Rudi, 1940-1979; SOCIALISM; POLITICAL violence; WEST German politics &; government
- Publication
German Politics & Society, 2008, Vol 26, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1045-0300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/gps.2008.260103