The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of how leading radical left movements of Turkey in 1960–71 conceptualized the state. The analytical framework draws on the mode of exchange framework developed by Kojin Karatani. The Turkish Left was unable to theorize the autonomy of the state, the construction of the nation as an imagined community, and the importance of popular resistance against the state's destruction of traditional communities. Right‐wing political parties filled this vacuum with the populist discourse of nation. The Turkish Left conceded its social base to right‐wing parties and hence lost the opportunity of winning political efficacy. Our critical assessment of the Left of Turkey in 1960–71 is pertinent to discussions about present‐day left‐wing strategies that leave the nation and ravaged communities to right parties to exploit or utilise as part of their program.

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国家自治，激进左翼和卡拉塔尼的首都民族国家：1960-1971年的土耳其左翼

本文的目的是说明土耳其在1960-71年间领导的激进左派运动如何将国家概念化。分析框架借鉴了Kojin Karatani开发的交换框架模式。土耳其左翼无法理论化国家的自治，国家作为一个想象中的社区的建设以及民众抵制国家对传统社区的破坏的抵抗的重要性。右翼政党用民粹主义民族话语填补了这一真空。土耳其左翼向右翼政党承认了其社会基础，因此失去了获得政治效力的机会。