The return of radicalism : reshaping the left institutions / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958-

Series:

Recasting Marxism.

Recasting Marxism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rise of neo-liberalism has had a devastating impact on the institutions and organisations with which the left has traditionally been associated. In the final volume in the Recasting Marxism trilogy, Boris Kagarlitsky examines this crisis and explores areas of opportunity for the left. He begins by focusing on the decline of trade unions in the West and the attempts to revive them, contrasting this with the rapid growth of unions in the nations of the developing world and the new industrial countries. He argues that trade unionism has a vital role to play in the twenty-first century.Kagarlitsky then provides a critique of the post-modernist left, arguing that the experiences of Eastern Europe and of the Third World demonstrate the vital need for a universal left as the only viable alternative to the emerging 'new barbarism'. The state of the contemporary left is explored, with an assessment of the contributions of the 'third left' and 'third socialism' and the new wave of left parties and movements, such as the German Party of Democratic Socialism, the Workers' Party in Brazil, and the Zapatistas in Mexico.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Pride and Protest

1 Does Trade Unionism Have a Future?

The Crisis of Unionism

The Post-Soviet Trade Unions

South Korean Activism

African Militancy

Third World Workers Form Fighting Unions

New Social Unionism in Europe

Changing the Concept of Unionism

2 Beyond Identities

Changing Fashions

Identity Politics

Discursive Struggles

Feminism: from Protest to Career Politics

Individualist Mass Movements

Moving East

The Real Differences

The Marxist Approach

Hegemony and Postmodernist Strategy

Universalism and Democracy

Affirmative Action

From Defensive Struggles to Corporatism

Leftist Strategies

Non-government Organizations

Class Politics comes Back

3 The Third Left or the Third Socialism

The 'Third Left'

The 'Third Socialism'

The Zapatistas

Return to the Arms

Protests and Programmes

Rifondazione in Italy

Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany

The Workers' Party in Brazil

Struggles in Eastern Europe

The Pluralist Left

Between Resistance and Constructive Work

From Networking to Challenging the System

Conclusion: The Stage We are In

Notes

Index

Adolphi, Wolfram 125

advertising

41

47

affirmative action

78-83

84

85-6

AFL-CIO labour federation 32-3

Africa 109

agro-technologies 3-4

Ahiska, Meltem 62

All-Russian Social Democratic Party 63

Alliance, New Zealand 136

Altvater, Elmar 126

Amin, Samir 100

Anderson, Perry 153-4

Andersson, Jan Otto

98

100

anti-Semitism 132

anti-war movements 89

apartheid

23-4

64

Arab-Israeli wars 5.

armed struggle

108-9

110-13

and ideology 114-15

and information technology 110

and information technology 112

Auguiton, Christophe 39

Australian Labor Party [ALP] 86

authoritarianism

77-8

Azhgikhina, Nadezhda 82

Bahro, Rudolf 118

Basayev, Shamil

110

113

114

Belarus 131

Belenkin, Vladimir 132

Belo Horizonte 128

Berlinguer, Enrico 116

Bertinotti, Fausto 117

Bisky, Lothar

120

122

Blackburn, Robin

2

155

157

Blair, Tony

10

145

Bloch, Ernst 125

Bobbio, Norberto 18

Bohemia 150-1

Bolsheviks

135

and Mensheviks 64

and Mensheviks 151

Bouchet, Hubert 17

Brandenburg 126

Brazil

26

127-9

142

Brecht, Bertolt 125

Brewer, Pat

52

55

58

82

Brie, André

67

121

Britain

revolution 151

trade unions 28

Bukharin, Nikolai 67

Bulgaria 19

Bund 63-4

Bundestag 120

Burkov, Alexander 133

Buzgalin, Aleksandr 151-2

Calcutta Book Fair [1995] 61-2

Canada

28

35-6

capital

and labour 71

mobility of 36

capitalism

11

45

85

153

and consumerism 40

and consumerism 47

and ethnic divisions of labour 64-5

and socialism 72

and struggle against 51

and struggle against 72

and technological revolution 6

and technological revolution 7

and technological revolution 8

and uniformity 63

and uniformity 67

crisis of 1

crisis of 10

crisis of 157-8

globalization of 100

globalization of 106

globalization of 155-6

globalization of 159

Information Age 48

weakness of 133

Caracas 141

Cardenas, Cuauhtemoc 107

Cardenism 107-8

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

127-8

143

Central Union of Workers [CUT] Brazil 26

Cerpa Cartolini, Nestor.

110

change

and complexity 88-9

democratic 89

from below 97

from below 101-2

Charter 88 87

Chechnya

109

111

Chiapas revolt

102-3

104

107

Chile

152

China

Chizh, Ivan 130

Christian Democrats, Germany

124

citizenship

74

77

civil society

79

86-7

87

88

92

class politics

92-7

146

class reductionism 74

class struggle

32

Claus, Roland 123-4

Clinton, Bill 10

coal miners', strike 13

coalition[s]

of left 136-7

of left 138-40

of left 143-4

v.opposition 143

collective bargaining 36

Collor, Fernando 127

Colombia 110

communication workers 35-6

communism, collapse of

1

17

99

133

Communist Manifesto 66

Communist Party

China 135

Czech Republic 130

France 139

Greece 140

Italy 115-16

Russia 131-2

Ukraine 130-1

Communist Party of Russian Federation [CPRF] 132

Communist Party of the Philippines [CPP] 138

communities/communitarianism

44

105

competition 155-6

computers/computerization

computers/computerization 6

computers/computerization 9

computers/computerization 14

Congress of South African Trade Unions [COSATU] 23-4

conservatism 74

consumerism

40-1

global 45-6

Cordillera People's Liberation Army [CPLA] 138

Cossuta, Armanda

116

117

Counter-Reformation 150

Cozma, Miron 20

CPI-ML [Liberation] 144

Craxi, Bettino 90

Cuba 152

culture of difference

86

96

Czech Republic

18

19

130

D'Alema, Massimo

Debray, Régis 113

decentralization

97

140

154

democracy

and choice 10

and choice 40

and corporations 158

and Enlightenment 77

and postmodernism 74.

and trade unionism 16

and trade unionism 19

and trade unionism 20-1

and trade unionism 23

and trade unionism 33

developing countries 153

dialogic 44

in trade unions 25

in trade unions 36-7

Mexico 107-9

radical 45

radical 86

democratic equivalence

71-2

73

Democrats, US 93-4

Democrazia Proletaria 116

Denfeld, Rene 61

Denmark

37

38

138

Dikki 140

discrimination

76

positive 85

discursive struggle 49-51

diversity

83

Drweski, Bruno 87

East Germany

119

124-5

126

141

Eastern Europe

and postmodernist radicalism 61

and Western capitalism 47-8

peasantry 76

quotas 80-1

semi-Western culture 78

struggles in 129-34

trade unions 18-20

Ebert, Teresa L. 74

education

9-10

Ekaterinburg 133

El Salvador

51

emancipation 65

employment

7-8

14-15

Encyclopedia of the American Left 49

Engels, F. 66

Enlightenment

75-8

environmental movement

and capitalism 92

and socialism 57

New Zealand 136

Russia 91-2

universalism 94-5

equality/equal rights

71

Erundina, Luisa 142

Estonia 18

Eurasianism 132

Europe

left 135

left 147

social unionism 28-31

trade union ideology 39

European parliament

elections

and unity of left 147

elections 139

Ewen, Stuart 40

exploitation

46

families, nuclear v. extended 59

Far Eastern Economic Review 27

Farrakhan, Louis 73

Fashions, changing 40-3

Federation of Korean Trade Unions 21-2

Federation of Trade Unions of Swaziland 25

feminism

52-6

59

65

and affirmative action 79

and affirmative action 86.

and individualism 58-9

and individualism 60-1

and left 53-4

and left 56

and other identity groups 73-4

and women's movements 52-3

and women's movements 54

and women's movements 61

and working women 58

and working women 62-3

and working women 65-6

bourgeois 61

bourgeois 83

in USSR 82

power 82

rise of 54-5

rise of 60-1

second-wave/new 53

second-wave/new 54

second-wave/new 58

turn to right 93

feudalism

149

150

151

160

financial sector 15

Finnish Left Union 98

Fordism

France

Communist Party 139

trade unions 14

trade unions 29-31

trade unions 33

trade unions 34

Trotskyists 139

Frank, Tom

48

Fraternity of Union Presidents of the Philippines [KPUP] 27

Free Democrats, Germany 124

Fujimori, President 110-11

Fukuyama, Francis 149

General Confederation of Labour [CGT] , France 34

General Confederation of Workers, Brazil 26

German Democratic Republic [GDR]

118

German People 's Union [DVU] 124

Germany

democratic socialism 117-26

elections 120

elections 122

elections 126

elections 141

peasant wars 150

Red-Green government 126

regionalism 121

social democracy 119

social democracy 124

social democracy 126

social democracy 139

social democracy 140

unification 117-19

unification 120

unification 124

war against Serbia 126

Ghana 25

Giddens, Anthony 44-6

Gilly, Adolfo

Girondins and Jacobins 151

Gitlin, Todd

75

93

95

globalization

and capitalism 8

and capitalism 100

and capitalism 106

and capitalism 155-6

and capitalism 159.

and left unity 147.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-175) and index.

ISBN:

9781849640640

1849640645

9780585426112

0585426112

OCLC:

50983998