A Communism of Intelligence: Early Communism in Late Imperial India

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI:10.1353/dia.2020.0012

Manu Goswami

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Abstract:Goswami's essay revisits an infamous legal trial against communists in late colonial India to rethink the rapid "mondialization" of a universalistic ideology in a peripheral locale. How did a creed associated with an implacable universality obtain concrete placement across a highly differentiated capitalist world-order? How might we address the unexpected and ectopic emergence of communism in colonial and peripheral contexts? Rancière's contention of a "communism of intelligence" has particular purchase for colonial and peripheral contexts, and not only because the "masses" the Comintern was addressing were not analogous to the formally similar working classes in advanced capitalist societies. Rather the realization of the "capacity of the incapables" entailed, then as now, a wrestling with actually existing hierarchies or the historical order of imposed and inherited anachronisms. Through a close reading of an infamous legal trial that prosecuted communists for their belief, Goswami argues that the multitudinous pathways of becoming and being a communist in late colonial India underscore the dialectic between equality and the denunciation of "historian's truth."

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智慧的共产主义:帝国晚期印度的早期共产主义

摘要：戈斯瓦米的文章回顾了殖民地后期印度对共产主义者臭名昭著的法律审判，以重新思考普世意识形态在周边地区的快速“世界化”。一个与不可改变的普遍性相关的信条是如何在高度分化的资本主义世界秩序中得到具体落实的？我们如何应对共产主义在殖民地和周边环境中意外和异位的出现？Rancière关于“情报共产主义”的论点特别适用于殖民地和周边环境，这不仅是因为共产国际所针对的“群众”与先进资本主义社会中形式相似的工人阶级不同。相反，“无能者的能力”的实现，当时和现在一样，需要与实际存在的等级制度或强加和继承的时代错误的历史秩序进行斗争。通过仔细阅读一场臭名昭著的法律审判，戈斯瓦米认为，在殖民地晚期的印度，成为和成为共产主义者的众多途径强调了平等和谴责“历史学家的真理”之间的辩证法

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