Abstract This article reconstructs the intellectual contributions of four Third Worldist thinkers from the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO)—Khaled Mohieddin, Félix-Roland Moumié, Maarouf al-Dawalibi, and Anoushavan Arzumanian—whose conjunctural analyses of colonial capitalism following the 1956 Suez Crisis should be recognized as coproducing the anticolonial Marxist repertoire. This article follows the AAPSO thinkers in taking Bandung seriously as a set of political praxis with limitations that can be dialectically and continually reworked from within. It argues that AAPSO leftists radicalized the meaning of Bandung, shifting it from a statist notion of diplomatic cooperation to a life-affirming praxis of Afro-Asian opposition. They posited collective Afro-Asian subjectivity as a dialectical negation of colonial capitalist oppression. The conceptual foundation linking what the author calls AAPSO's left Third Worldist analysis to anticolonial Marxism is the understanding of imperialism and capitalism as coconstitutive, enabling a materialist analysis of the postcolony. This article's radical iteration of Bandung unravels a normative and practical problem concerning the existence of left internationalism from the Global South that is capable of coordinating struggles from below and enabling an imagination of self-government beyond an imperial state form.
Thiti Jamkajornkeiat (Mon,) studied this question.