edited leo panitch colin leys (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. New forces of resistance have emerged to both American imperialism and neoliberalism But how far do these forces represent a progressive alternative This volume surveys the key flashpoints of resistance todayThe main arena of resistance to imperialism is the Middle East Six essays explore the ambivalent nature of Islamic anti-imperialism and the West?s crucial role in making it so significant as well as the different forms it takes as a political creed; and they provide particular insight into the relationship between religion and politics today in Iraq Palestine and TurkeyResistance to neoliberalism has been seen most clearly in the ?pink tide? in Latin America Seven essays evaluate the potential -- or lack of it -- for a 21st century socialism across the region and especially in Venezuela Bolivia Mexico and Argentina; while an interview with João-Pedro Stedile leader of Brazil?s Landless People?s Movement provides a unique perspective on class struggles in that countryThree further essays look at recent reactions to neoliberalism and imperialism elsewhere -- in Eastern Europe in France and in the heart of empire the United States itself The volume concludes with a symposium three leading left economists analyse neoliberalism as a global regime of social and political control and critically examine the left?s response to it 362 pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Is this a new age of barbarism The scale and pervasiveness of violence today calls urgently for serious analysis ofthe war on terror and counter-insurgenciesterror and counter-terrorsuicide bombing and tortureurban gang warfare andthe persistence of chronic violence against womenSuch violence entails human tragedies on a scale comparable to those of the two world wars The fact that millions of people are living in fear of violent death is an appalling indictment of the nirvana of global capitalism that now prevailsThe opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism Other essays analyse the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases of violence around the world And several of the concluding essays deal from various different standpoints with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of todays actually-existing barbarism 278 pp.