The growing polarization between the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless, the yawning social and developmental divide and the multidimensional systemic crisis of capitalism have given rise to a fundamental problem of our times: barbarism or socialism? Will we continue on the path of capitalist barbarism or move to a more just socialist system? Bringing together a passionate group of socialists, 21st Century Socialism participates in the emerging and critical debate concerned with reinventing and rebuilding socialism. Revisiting concepts of class and capital, reinventing Marx, problematizing party politics, re-examining alternative forms of socialist politics and learning lessons from Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, 21st Century Socialism explores how socialism needs to be re-imagined to make it relevant to 21st-century.--Publisher's website.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Preface 7
- Latin Americas Twenty-First Century Socialism 11
- James Petras 11
- Social Changes 19
- 21cs in Bolivia 21
- Public Ownership 30
- Agrarian Reform 31
- Reinventing Socialism and Recovering Marx 33
- Michael A. Lebowitz 33
- Cloistering Criticism or Breaking Bonds 48
- Errol Sharpe 48
- The Marginalization of Marx in an Anti-Metaphysical Age 62
- Thom Workman 62
- The Role of the Political Instrument 78
- Marta Harnecker 78
- Organizing for Socialism The Communist Network of Italy 100
- Mauro Casadio and Luciano Vasapollo 100
- Socialist Strategy Yesterday and Today Notes on Classical Marxism and the Contemporary Radical Left 119
- Murray E.G. Smith and Joshua D. Dumont 119
- The Prospects for Socialism A Question of Capital and Class 139
- Hugo Radice 139
- Crisis Movements Counter-Hegemony In Search of the New 151
- William K. Carroll 151
- Increased Transnationality 159
- The Political Ecology of Counter-Hegemony 160
- Reclaiming the Commons 161
- Mediatization and the Struggle to Democratize Communication 162
- Venezuela under Chávez The Dialectics of Twenty- First-Century Socialism 175
- Jeffery R. Webber 175
- The New Constitution and Neoliberalism with a Human Face 19992000 184
- Counter-Revolution and the Awakening of Popular Power from Below 200104 186
- Socialism or Barbarism 204
- James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer 204
- Bibliography 222
- About the Authors 237
