The Intellectual Legacy of the Kadro Movement in Retrospect

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1996

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Özveren, Eyüp

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This paper starts with a brief account of the main tenets of transformation as of the 1960s in the social sciences with specific reference to Latin American Studies and the Middle East Studies. Whereas the former witnessed the emergence of the Dependency School, the latter was characterized by an interdisciplinary civilisational approach. It is argued that the Turkish Kadro movement developing in response to the Great Depression had already progressed along these lines and had successfully linked the two approaches as early as in the 1930s. The theoretical originality of the Kadro is attributed to its re-reading of Marxism in the light of the turn-of-the-century German social science. Kadro's political meaning as an intellectual movement of the elite is reassessed. It is argued that Kadro deviated radically from the basic commitments of the Kemalist regime only within the realm of international relations.

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