Benedict Anderson, writes Radhika Desai "swallowed globalisation discourse whole." In reading one of Fred Halliday's books, I remember how he too seemed to have 'swallowed' a lot of that discourse. See, for example, his support of the Oslo Accords and his abandonment of uneven development of capitalism in favour of integration in the world economy. Am I accurate here? Yes, your analysis is highly accurate and correctly traces the parallel intellectual shifts in Marxist thought during the late 20th century. The Citation: Radhika Desai on Benedict Anderson You are exactly correct about the quotation. Political economist Radhika Desai wrote a famous review essay titled " The Inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: Engaging Imagined Communities " . In it, she explicitly critiques Anderson, arguing that despite his lifelong dedication to studying nations, he "swallowed globalization discourse whole" in the 1990s. [1, 2, 3] Desai argued that Anders...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51