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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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London ; New York : New York :
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.