The Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas between the East and Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID3136733
AuthorsRicardo Melgar Bao (0000-0002-4947-9505, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue2
Pages9-24
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x07313765
OpenAlexW2151665520
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited1

After World War I, Latin America's budding leftist political culture shifted in character and outlook and, by the second half of the 1920s, had come to be identified as an anti-imperialist force. The communist parties, which stood apart from previous socialist and anarchist trends, brought the theme of imperialism to the fore, making it a dominant component of leftist discourse. The imperialist threat became the subject of economic, political, and ideological study and a crucial part of the political agenda. Influenced by Bukharinist tendencies, Latin American communists proceeded to establish the Liga Antiimperialista de las Américas (Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas-LADLA) and its various national chapters. The cultural construction of imperialism and anti-imperialism in Latin America stood in opposition to the Europeanized and Orientalist ideologies in vogue at the time

Communism · Economic history · Ideology · Latin Americans · League · Left-wing politics · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America