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Title: | Marxisms in the 21st century: crisis, critique & struggle |
Editors: | Williams, Michelle Satgar, Vishwas |
Year: | 2013 |
Pages: | 298 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Democratic marxism |
City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
Publisher: | Wits University Press |
ISBN: | 1868147533; 9781868147533 |
Geographic terms: | Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | Marxism political science democracy feminism globalization ecology socialism government civil society African National Congress (South Africa) |
Abstract: | This collective volume explores Marxism as an analyical tool for contemporary issues, and as an ideology behind contemporary political movements, in Africa, with a focus on South Africa. Contents: Part I Democratising and globalising Marxism. Marxism and democracy: liberal, vanguard or direct? (Michelle Williams); Marxism after Polanyi (Michael Burawoy); Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism (Vishwas Satgar). -- Part II Marxism and left politics. Notes on critique (Ahmed Veriava); Marxism and feminism: 'unhappy marriage' or creative partnership? (Jacklyn Cock and Meg Luxton); Marx and the eco-logic of fossil capitalism (Devan Pillay). -- Part III Crises of Marxism in Africa and possibilities for the future. Retrospect: seven theses about Africa's Marxist regimes (Daryl Glaser); Socialism and southern Africa (John S. Saul); Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa's urban social movements (Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane); Critical reflections on the crisis and limits of ANC 'Marxism' (Mazibuko K. Jara). [ASC Leiden abstract] |