A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar
laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the
continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide. In the first
decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and
African countries and established Latin American states pursued a
socialist development model. Jeremy Friedman traces the socialist
experiment over forty years through the experience of five
countries: Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran. These
states sought paths to socialism without formal adherence to the
Soviet bloc or the programs that Soviets, East Germans, Cubans,
Chinese, and other outsiders tried to promote. Instead, they
attempted to forge new models of socialist development through
their own trial and error, together with the help of existing
socialist countries, demonstrating the flexibility and adaptability
of socialism. All five countries would become Cold War
battlegrounds and regional models, as new policies in one shaped
evolving conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the
collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile,
just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the
policies of the left in Iran. Efforts to build agrarian economies
in West Africa influenced Tanzania's approach to socialism, which
in turn influenced the trajectory of the Angolan model. Ripe for
Revolution shows socialism as more adaptable and pragmatic than
often supposed. When we view it through the prism of a Stalinist
orthodoxy, we miss its real effects and legacies, both good and
bad. To understand how socialism succeeds and fails, and to grasp
its evolution and potential horizons, we must do more than read
manifestos. We must attend to history.
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