Now free to read at NR: Me on Mugabe, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, and imperialism.http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454674/robert-mugabe-zimbabwe-descent-crisis …
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Replying to @herandrews @JSMilbank
Superb article with huge implications. A sensible imperial gradual progress to colonial self-government, largely supported by indigeneous peoples, was only undone by both American liberal and Russian communist ideology, money and guns. 'Post-colonial' thought wrong not radical.
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As a teenager I supposed Ian Smith to be a fascist villain and Robert Mugabe a liberationist hero. Yet it seems the former despaired of the British backing moderation and that complacent Tories contemptuously supposed that Africans had the democratic right to choose a tyrant.
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The wider implication is that because the Franco-British alliance failed to hold after WWII, Europe and the European empires were defeated by the two revolutionary ideologies of the USA and the USSR. They paved the way for Chinese revolutionary synthesis that now threatens Africa
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Replying to @johnmilbank3
Possible thesis: contemporary anti-imperialism derives from an American myth of orgins which itself serves American liberal imperialist purposes.
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It's also funny how some of these academics further a largely American form of liberal neocolonialism and/or inscribe modernist liberal values into indigenous cultures around the world.
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