Framing of Political Culture in the English-Speaking Caribbean

In this essay it is my contention that, as anachronistic as a revived political interest in Marxism and socialism in the Caribbean may appear today, it is nevertheless likely to stem form the unintended consequences of United States’ aggressive leadership of the “Free World,” which includes the Caribbean. The backdrop to this study of the political culture of the Caribbean is the region’s class-based and racialized history, whose roots are firmly planted in colonialism and slavery and latterly in neocolonialism and global capitalism. Since the end of the Second World War, however, with the decline of the British Empire and the decolonization of Africa, India and the British Caribbean, major changes have been registered in the political cultures of the countries concerned. In the Caribbean particularly, those changes have been increasingly tied to the fortunes of the Cuban revolution and the heavy-handed treatment meted out by the United States. This has conditioned the growth of a curious political climate in the Caribbean, which sees a blend of socialist, anti-American posturing by some political leaders, part of which includes a brand of racial politics imported from the American civil rights activists of the 1960s

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