This work,using a structurationist approach,phenomenological structuralism,argues that the Haitian Revolution and Jean-Jacques Dessalines represented the first embodiment of Alexandre Kojève’s“End of History”t...This work,using a structurationist approach,phenomenological structuralism,argues that the Haitian Revolution and Jean-Jacques Dessalines represented the first embodiment of Alexandre Kojève’s“End of History”thesis.Following the Haitian Revolution,which is a revolt against slavery and mercantilist capitalism,the founder of the country,Jean-Jacques Dessalines,attempted to synthesize three forms of system and social integration on the island in order to constitute the nation of Haiti:the mercantilist and liberal capitalism of the Affranchis,petit-bourgeois blacks and mulatto elites,respectively;and the Lakouism,communism,of the African majority on the island.In this sense,Dessalines represented the first embodiment of Kojève’s end of history Hegelian thesis.Using a structurationist,structural Marxist,understanding of practical consciousness constitution,the work explores the origins and basis for Dessalines’s social,political,and economic policies to that end.The death of Dessalines,I conclude,would undermine this revolutionary impetus of the Haitian Revolution,rendering it insignificant,and converted Haiti into the so-called poorest country in the Western Hemisphere under American neoliberal capitalist hegemony.展开更多
文摘This work,using a structurationist approach,phenomenological structuralism,argues that the Haitian Revolution and Jean-Jacques Dessalines represented the first embodiment of Alexandre Kojève’s“End of History”thesis.Following the Haitian Revolution,which is a revolt against slavery and mercantilist capitalism,the founder of the country,Jean-Jacques Dessalines,attempted to synthesize three forms of system and social integration on the island in order to constitute the nation of Haiti:the mercantilist and liberal capitalism of the Affranchis,petit-bourgeois blacks and mulatto elites,respectively;and the Lakouism,communism,of the African majority on the island.In this sense,Dessalines represented the first embodiment of Kojève’s end of history Hegelian thesis.Using a structurationist,structural Marxist,understanding of practical consciousness constitution,the work explores the origins and basis for Dessalines’s social,political,and economic policies to that end.The death of Dessalines,I conclude,would undermine this revolutionary impetus of the Haitian Revolution,rendering it insignificant,and converted Haiti into the so-called poorest country in the Western Hemisphere under American neoliberal capitalist hegemony.
