%0 Journal Article
%T Imperialism and Third World nationalism: Reflections on the coup against Mossadegh¡¯s regime in Iran, 1953
%A Prabhat Patnaik
%J Studies in People's History
%@ 2349-7718
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2348448918795778
%X The US¡¯s planned and financed overthrow of the Mossadegh¡¯s regime in Iran in 1953 was a classical case of imperialist intervention. Many explanations for this can be offered: US¡¯s racial fellow feeling for British, the main possible loser at the hands of Mossadegh¡¯s nationalism; expectation of economic gains for US oil interests or fear of threat from the Soviet Union. None of these, however, can stand detailed analysis. What can offer a more straightforward explanation is that anti-colonial Third World nationalism could not just be fitted into the world-view of the major capitalist powers, chiefly the USA. It has to be suppressed or thwarted wherever such possibility existed
%K Iran
%K Mossadegh
%K US imperialim
%K anti-communism
%K Third World nationalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2348448918795778