TY - JOUR
T1 - The organic crisis of Internationalism and the challenge of remembering alternative futures
T2 - Woman suffrage, parliamentarism, and anti-colonial critique in the Communist International
AU - Keremidchieva, Zornitsa D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - The function and meaning of voting can vary across political systems. Despite its diffusion as a norm alongside the global spread of political liberalism in the post-colonial period, women's franchise continues to expose key fault lines in the foundations of democratic theory. Recalling the Third Comintern's debates and activities in the aftermath of World War I, this paper explores how gender organized the left's critiques of bourgeois parliamentarism and its imperial tendencies in the early twentieth century. It draws particular attention to how, in the context of global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles, the woman suffrage issue juxtaposed the promises and premises of bourgeois and proletarian internationalism, the democratic potential and limits of electoral systems and their political alternative, the soviet. From these experiences, this paper highlights the radical challenge that gender poses to the development of alternative democratic imaginations.
AB - The function and meaning of voting can vary across political systems. Despite its diffusion as a norm alongside the global spread of political liberalism in the post-colonial period, women's franchise continues to expose key fault lines in the foundations of democratic theory. Recalling the Third Comintern's debates and activities in the aftermath of World War I, this paper explores how gender organized the left's critiques of bourgeois parliamentarism and its imperial tendencies in the early twentieth century. It draws particular attention to how, in the context of global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles, the woman suffrage issue juxtaposed the promises and premises of bourgeois and proletarian internationalism, the democratic potential and limits of electoral systems and their political alternative, the soviet. From these experiences, this paper highlights the radical challenge that gender poses to the development of alternative democratic imaginations.
KW - colonialism
KW - communism
KW - democratic theory
KW - feminism
KW - Voting rights
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U2 - 10.1080/00335630.2020.1785631
DO - 10.1080/00335630.2020.1785631
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089029626
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 106
SP - 299
EP - 309
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 3
ER -