New realism, new barbarism : socialist theory in the era of globalization / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958-

Series:

Recasting Marxism.

Recasting Marxism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism.

Capitalism.

Communism.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this radical and controversial overview of the post-communist world, Boris Kagarlitsky argues that the very success of neo-liberal capitalism has made traditional socialism all the more necessary and feasible. Kagarlitsky argues that leftists exaggerate the importance of the 'objective' aspects of the 'new reality' - globalisation - and the weakening of the state, while underestimating the importance of the hegemony of neo-liberalism. As long as neo-liberalism retains its ideological hegemony, despite its economic failure, the consequence is a 'new barbarism' - already a reality in Eastern Europe, and now also emerging in the West. Kagarlitsky challenges the political neurosis of the left and prevailing assumptions of Marxism to argue that Marx's theories are now more timely than they were in the mid-twentieth century. He analyses theories of the 'end of the proletariat' and the 'end of work', and assesses the potential of the new technologies - such as the Internet - which create fresh challenges for capitalism and new arenas for struggle.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The New Barbarism

The Decade of Frustration

The End of Alternatives?

'Modest' Socialism

The Arrogant 'Civilization'

The Barbarians at the Gates

Building the Pyramids

1 The Left As it Is

Electoral Successes, Political Failures

The Neurosis of the Left

'Socialist Values'

Reforms After the Revolution

The New Realism

The Dialectic of Reform

Lessons from Eastern Europe

The Case of South Africa

The Rise of the Militant Right

The Elitist Left

What About the Workers?

Returning to Struggle

2 De-Revising Marx

What is Revisionism?

The Time of Reaction

Escaping from Utopia

Reclaiming the Tradition

3 The Return of the Proletariat

Post- industrial Mirage

Technological Aristocracy

The Crocodile Phenomenon

Proletarianization

Informal Work and Traditional Sector

4 New Technologies, New Struggles

Pirates!

Geopolitics of Knowledge

The Struggles in Cyberspace

5 The New Periphery

From Hope to Frustration

Transition and History

Capitalist Reality

Nationalism: Myth of the Golden Age

Non- capitalist Capitalism

From 'Resisting the Change' to Changing the System

No Way 'Back to the USSR'

Conclusion

Notes

Introduction

2 De- Revising Marx

Index

African National Congress

22

44-6

49

50

agriculture, role of 93

Albania

14-18

19

132

138

Aleman, Arnoldo 27

apartheid, abolition of 49

Arab-Israeli war 126

authors' rights

109

112

113

Bahrain 113

Balbastre, Gilles 81

Ballaev, Andrey 30-1

barbarians 7-14

Barenboim, David 108

Barlow, John Perry 116-17

Belarus

130

133.

Bell, D. 92

Berisha, Sali 15-16

Berlin Wall

5

13

20

Bernstein, Eduard

29

65

66

black market 129

Blair, Tony

38

42

56

61

Block, Fred

68-9

84

88

Bobbio, Norberto 29

Bolsheviks 71

Borocz, Josef 125

bourgeoisification

97

127

137

Brazil 18

Brazilian Workers' Party

41

Brezhnev, Leonid

126

Brie, André and Michel

77

79

Bulgaria

43

111

Burbach, Roger 70

Business Software Alliance 104

Buzdugan, Yury 130-1

Buzgalin, Aleksandr

58

107

Camdessus, Michel 14-15

capitalism

2

3

9-10

34

Cardenál, Ernesto 26

Castellanos, Nayar Lopez 59

Catholicism, subsidiarity 35

Causa R 22

Chamorro, Violeta 26

change

social 29

social 30

technological 66

Chiapas

Chile 22

China

90

110-11

Chirac, Jacques 20

Christiansen, Niels Finn 24

Chrysler 92

civil society 135-6

civilization

6-11

and exploitation 12

collapse of 7

collapse of 12-13

collapse of 19

development of 9-10

imitating 9-11

joining 11-12

Clarke, Simon 50

class reductionism 77

class struggle

71-2

and evolution of capitalism 70

self-organization 17

Cold War

28

collectivism, and totalitarianism 27

Colombia

103

and capitalism 28

collapse of 20

collapse of 33

collapse of 127

nationalist alternative to 133

revival of 143

transformation of 20

Communist Manifesto, The

63

70

145

Communist Party

France 21

India 22-3

nationalist policies 139-40

threat of Internet 114-15

Communist Party of the Russian Federation [CPRF] 28

computer industry

compulsory licensing 112

hardware monopoly 118-19

profits 105

profits 106-7.

property consciousness 119-20

software monopoly 110-12

transnational companies 110

computer piracy

104-9

and geopolitics 109-12

and viruses 109

authors' rights 109

authors' rights 112

creating demand 105-6

creating demand 107

legislation 109-10

propaganda against 107-9

prosecutions 105-6

prosecutions 108

solution to 112

undermining monopoly 110-12

computer programmers 88

computers

87-8

94

114

conformism

60

consensus model 2

consultants 85

cooperative 38

corruption 15

COSATU trade unions 46-7

cost of 128-32

crisis

18-19

146

and economic efficiency 32

and employment 80

and external stabilizers 32

and external stabilizers 35-6

and growth 34-5

and justice 32

and justice 37

and local 'barbarism' 139

and Marxism 97

and Marxism 145

and reformism 36

and reformism 37

and reformism 40

and self-sufficiency 34-5

and technology 80

and working class 79

and working class 86-7

evolution of 66

evolution of 67

evolution of 70

German model 38-40

global system 67

global system 144

global system 146

peripheral 137-40

peripheral 141

peripheral 142

peripheral 144

primitive 134-5

reality of 128-32

resistance to 23

resistance to 27-8

resistance to 74

resistance to 103

Croatia 133

Czech Republic

16

21

129-30

136

Czechoslovakia

128

Czurka, Istvan 52

d'Alema, Massimo 29

de Klerk, F.W. 44

democracy

Democracy 66 25

142

and peripheral capitalism 144

efficiency, and justice 32

efficiency, and justice 37

in crisis 1

in crisis 6

post-communist 136

Denmark

24-5

Derrida, J. 63

downsizing 91.

East Asia, and industrial employment 90

East Germany

123-4

Eastern Europe

computer piracy 111

and investment 124-5

and investment 137

and liberalization of economy 129

and liberalization of economy 131

and liberalization of economy 137

and membership of NATO 122

and privatization 1

and privatization 137

as periphery of West 124-7

as periphery of West 131

as periphery of West 132

as periphery of West 136

debt dependency 124

debt dependency 126

democracy 132

democracy 141

dependence on West 123

dependence on West 124

dependence on West 130

dependence on West 131

dependence on West 134

education 128

education 129

entrepreneurship 137

entrepreneurship 138

entrepreneurship 139

entrepreneurship 140

entry into EU 122

entry into EU 142

health care 128

integration with West 10-11

integration with West 121-3

integration with West 136

integration with West 142

modernization 140-3

nationalism 133-4

nationalism 141

peripheral capitalism 137-40

protest movements 123

protest movements 138

recent history of 125-8

regional integration 141

regional integration 144

return to past 133-5

shadow economy 129

technological stratification 130

traditional structures 138

traditional structures 139

transition to capitalism 123

transition to capitalism 124-5

transition to capitalism 127-8

transition to capitalism 128-32

transition to capitalism 131

unemployment 128-9

Westernization 139

economy

complexity of 98-9

and technology 83

international forces 146

education

3-4

129

Ekspert 105

El Salvador 22

election-rigging 15-16

employment

79-82

America 81-2

industrial 89-93

informal sector 98.

job security 92-3

part-time 83

redistributed 92

service sector 81

service sector 91

service sector 100

traditional sector 91-2

traditional sector 98-100

wages 82

end of work thesis

80

82

Engels, F. 77

Estonia 133

ethnic conflicts 14

ethnic solidarity 142

Eurocommunist parties 34

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the countries of Southern Europe 43

European Union

elections 25

and expansion 122

exploitation

85

93

100

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 22

fascism

6

76

Field, Norma 98-9

Financial Times 145

France

1-2

51

Frankfurt School 77

free market

1

free professions 94

freedom 32

Freeman, Alan 116

Frente Amplio 22

Frow, John 117-18

Fukuyama, Francis

fundamentalism 75-6

Galkovsky, Dmitri 137

García, Marco Aurelio 22

Gates, Bill 115

General Motors 91

Germany

censoring Internet 113

East and West 39

new Lander 124

new Lander 128

new Lander 136

Social Democrats 21

Social Democrats 56

welfare system 39

Giddens, Anthony

75

81

Glazyev, Sergey

131

globalization, economic forces

48-9

54

Gorbachev Foundation 28-9

Gorbachev, Mikhail

139

140

Gorz, André 79

Gramsci, A.

Gramsci, A 47

Gramsci, A 65

Gramsci, A 72

Gramsci, A 102

Greece 42

Green Lefts [Groenlinks][Holland] 24

Growth, Employment and Redistribution policy [GEAR][South Africa] 47-8

Gushchin, Viktor 135

Gustavsen, Finn 24

Gysi, Gregor 39

Harasti, Miklos

52

Hard'n'Soft

117

118

Head, Simon

95-6

health care

26

Hiatt, Fred 18

history

end of 3

end of 7

end of 70.

and social progress 69-70.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640619

1849640610

9780585425603

0585425604

OCLC:

923330215