Abstract

KENT CARRASCO, Daniel. The Cultural Cold War in the Third World: The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Mexico and India. Secuencia [online]. 2021, n.111, e1931.  Epub Nov 16, 2021. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i111.1931.

This article undertakes a comparative history of the trajectories in the headquarters of the Congress for the Freedom of Culture in Mexico and India during the 1950s. The central point of this writing is that the activities promoted in both places played a central role in the establishment of an elite liberal culture centered around the denouncement of the danger posed by left-wing totalitarianism for the future of both countries and, by extension, the rest of the Third World. At a time when the battle for ideas defined not only global geopolitical coordinates but also the subjective orientation and aspirations of Third World cosmopolitan intellectuals, this elite culture was central to the consolidation of a new intellectual consensus defined by anti-communism and the defense of liberalism as the only political horizon.

Keywords : anticommunism; cold war liberalism; global history of the Third World; modernization; cultural cold war.

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