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Rebuilding the Left /

Based on a lifetime's experience in politics, this book is a critique of social democratic realpolitik. It studies the challenges faced by the left now, and suggests ways to move forward to build a different world. The author looks to the social experiments being carried out in Latin America to...

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Основен автор: Harnecker, Marta.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Spanish
Публикувано: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Предмети:
1900-1999
Socialism > History > 20th century.
Socialism > Latin America > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
Socialism.
Links (politiek)
Politieke organisaties.
Latin America.
Latijns-Amerika.
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Rebuilding the Left.
Съдържание:
  • Part I
  • The Left and the New World
  • 5
  • 1
  • Profound Changes in the World
  • 7
  • A unit in real time on a planetary scale
  • 8
  • The internationalisation of the production process
  • 8
  • The nature of the state changes but its role is not reduced
  • 12
  • The communications revolution in the service of capital
  • 19
  • Fragmenting strategy
  • 22
  • The military danger
  • 23
  • The phenomenon of imperialism has not disappeared, but has taken on new forms
  • 25
  • 2
  • Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind
  • 27
  • Decline in the standard of living
  • 28
  • The new international cycle
  • 29
  • 3
  • Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social Bloc
  • 32
  • The need to rebuild the Left so that it can become the glue that sticks the social opposition together
  • 32
  • Building a broad anti-neo-liberal social and political bloc
  • 34
  • Capitalist sectors in direct contradiction to the transnationals
  • 35
  • Part II
  • The Crises of 'Party' and Why We Need a New Left Political Culture
  • 37
  • 4
  • Crisis of Theory
  • 39
  • Threefold origin
  • 39
  • A crisis of Marxism doesn't mean we have to deny Marx's contributions
  • 41
  • 5
  • Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility
  • 42
  • No plan for an alternative to capitalism
  • 42
  • Crisis of the credibility of politics and politicians
  • 43
  • 6
  • The Organic Crisis
  • 45
  • There is no political subject equal to the new challenges
  • 45
  • How copying the Bolshevik model led to deviations
  • 46
  • Other mistakes and deviations
  • 50
  • 7
  • The Theory Underlying This Concept of Party
  • 56
  • Some explanation for these errors: Kautsky's thesis
  • 56
  • How this is reflected in the conception of the revolutionary party
  • 63
  • 8
  • Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible
  • 66
  • Is it possible to come up with an alternative?
  • 66
  • Politics cannot be defined as the art of the possible
  • 67
  • Utopian goals: a source of inspiration
  • 70
  • Changing the traditional vision of politics
  • 70
  • Overcoming the narrow definition of power
  • 71
  • Politics as the art of building a social force in opposition to the system
  • 71
  • 9
  • Why We Need a Political Organisation
  • 73
  • The effects of the ruling ideology
  • 74
  • Manufacturing consent
  • 74
  • Direct knowledge and indirect knowledge
  • 76
  • Drawing up a social project that is an alternative to capitalism
  • 77
  • The need to give millions of people a single will
  • 78
  • Part III
  • The New Political Instrument
  • 81
  • 10
  • The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument
  • 83
  • Understanding the importance of social practice for creating consciousness
  • 83
  • An organisation immersed in society
  • 84
  • Overcoming hegemonism
  • 86
  • Creating a new relationship with the popular movement
  • 87
  • No more workerism
  • 90
  • A body to coordinate all the different emancipatory social practices
  • 91
  • Democracy: the cause to champion
  • 91
  • An organisation which is the harbinger of the new society
  • 91
  • 11
  • A New Paradigm for Internal Organisation
  • 100
  • Unite your members around a community of values and a concrete programme
  • 100
  • Contemplating different kinds of membership
  • 101
  • Giving up authoritarian methods
  • 104
  • There is no political effectiveness without unified leadership
  • 105
  • A political organisation for those exploited and excluded by capitalism
  • 112
  • A political organisation which is not naive but is preparing itself for any eventuality
  • 112
  • New internationalist practice for the globalised world
  • 114
  • Part IV
  • From Reforms to Revolution: The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process
  • 115
  • 12
  • Local Governments: Signposts to an Alternative Path
  • 117
  • The problem of knowing how to govern
  • 119
  • The party's weakness vis-a-vis the government
  • 120
  • The bureaucratic apparatus and how to contend with it
  • 122
  • Popular participation in the government
  • 125
  • The participatory budget: the key to participation and politicisation
  • 126
  • 13
  • The Left and Reform
  • 130
  • Has the Left become reformist?
  • 130
  • Varieties of reformism
  • 132
  • Specific challenges in the election arena
  • 136
  • A creative approach to the a-legal
  • 138
  • 14
  • The Bolivarian Revolution
  • Is It a Revolution?
  • 139
  • The state takes the initiative in changing the rules of the game and creating spaces for participation
  • 139
  • Participation and human development in the Bolivarian Constitution
  • 140
  • The communal councils: local spaces ideal for allowing everyone to participate
  • 140
  • Encouraging worker participation
  • 145
  • The state from a revolutionary perspective
  • 149
  • On the political instrument that could move these ideas forward
  • 149.

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