A review by zachcarter
Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire by Eqbal Ahmad

3.0

Eqbal Ahmad's grasp on geopolitics is something of a marvel. These interviews really were like spinning a globe and stopping it with your finger and asking him to analyze the forces at play. That said, I found a handful of his analyses sloppy - he equates Hitler to Stalin, calls the Soviet Union "one of the most defective formations" in all human history and then goes on to defend social democrats as a positive force, and really undervalues the incredible gains made by both socialist revolution and national liberation movements around the world. In many ways, he should be placed in the same category as Noam Chomsky - from whom I've learned a tremendous amount - in that their immense contribution to the field of anti-imperialism is at its best when it is aimed at the Western imperial powers.