From the mid-twentieth century through the 1970s, social democrats and democratic socialists forged a transnational movement committed to justice and durable freedom in the decolonizing world. What concrete proposals did they advance for redistributing wealth at a global scale—and why did these proposals fall by the wayside? Drawing on interviews and archival research across three continents, this talk moves from Caracas and New Delhi to Accra, Paris, and New York to recover the ambitions of socialist internationalists and the barriers they faced. In doing so, it reframes the emergence of financialization as the outcome of political struggle, illuminating at once paths not traveled and the making of our fractured present.
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