Imperialism Reading Group - Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic - Week 6
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.
The book we are currently reading through is Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin. There are two main editions, to my knowledge: the original one with a yellow cover from 2006, and an updated version from 2021 with an orange cover. I am reading the latter version.
Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.
This week, we will be reading Chapter 5.
Next week, we will be reading Chapter 6.
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In Chapter 5, Nixon and Kissinger arrive on the stage, ready to overthrown democratic governments across Latin America. Allende takes power in Chile democratically, and his successful socialist policies create an enormous problem for both the Cold War propaganda narrative against communists as being fundamentally opposed to democracy, and also for American control over the continent more generally as Allende opposes various American groups. In particular, Allende's efforts to take back the excess profit stolen from their country by Western corporations, as well as the proliferation of computing technology (vis a vis Cybersyn in Chile) earn him the personal ire of Nixon and Kissinger, who follow the anti-Arbenz framework to overthrow Allende from within with a massive covert campaign to sew fear, disorder, and dissent. Allende does not take the advice of Castro, and his fall is rapid and brutal because of it.
This, in addition to the ongoing dramatic failures in Vietnam, cause a domestic and global anti-war movement to rise, but despite fears from within the American establishment, its power overall appears limited to a degree of harm reduction and the revealing of American plots and campaigns via e.g. the Church Committee, rather than a movement that meaningfully provides room for anti-American/democratic/socialists governments to rise to power. All these events are also taking place simultaneously with the efforts to divide the USSR and China, though as both of those countries' influence is fairly limited in Latin America at this time, this dynamic is not that relevant to this particular story (at least, not yet).
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Imperialism Reading Group - Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic - Week 6
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.
The book we are currently reading through is Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin. There are two main editions, to my knowledge: the original one with a yellow cover from 2006, and an updated version from 2021 with an orange cover. I am reading the latter version.
Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.
This week, we will be reading Chapter 5.
Next week, we will be reading Chapter 6.
Imperialism Reading Group ping!
In Chapter 5, Nixon and Kissinger arrive on the stage, ready to overthrown democratic governments across Latin America. Allende takes power in Chile democratically, and his successful socialist policies create an enormous problem for both the Cold War propaganda narrative against communists as being fundamentally opposed to democracy, and also for American control over the continent more generally as Allende opposes various American groups. In particular, Allende's efforts to take back the excess profit stolen from their country by Western corporations, as well as the proliferation of computing technology (vis a vis Cybersyn in Chile) earn him the personal ire of Nixon and Kissinger, who follow the anti-Arbenz framework to overthrow Allende from within with a massive covert campaign to sew fear, disorder, and dissent. Allende does not take the advice of Castro, and his fall is rapid and brutal because of it.
This, in addition to the ongoing dramatic failures in Vietnam, cause a domestic and global anti-war movement to rise, but despite fears from within the American establishment, its power overall appears limited to a degree of harm reduction and the revealing of American plots and campaigns via e.g. the Church Committee, rather than a movement that meaningfully provides room for anti-American/democratic/socialists governments to rise to power. All these events are also taking place simultaneously with the efforts to divide the USSR and China, though as both of those countries' influence is fairly limited in Latin America at this time, this dynamic is not that relevant to this particular story (at least, not yet).
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