Rebuilding the LeftBloomsbury Publishing, 29 feb 2008 - 177 páginas What future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century? Based on a lifetime's experience in politics, Marta Harnecker addresses the crisis facing the left today. At its heart, this book is a critique of social democratic realpolitik. Harnecker reminds us that, contrary to today's orthodoxy, politics is not the art of the possible but the art of making the impossible possible by building a social and political force capable of changing reality. She believes that the social experiments being carried out in Latin America today hold out hope that an alternative to capitalism is possible; they are essentially socialist, democratic projects in which the people are the driving force. To create a real alternative to capitalism, though, the left must change. Rebuilding the Left offers real hope to those who still believe that we can create a different world. |
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Chapter 2 Profound Discontent Among Much of Humankind | 27 |
Chapter 3 Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social Bloc | 32 |
PART II The Crisis of Party and Why We Need a New Left Political Culture | 37 |
Chapter 4 Crisis of Theory | 39 |
Chapter 5 Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility | 42 |
Chapter 9 Why We Need a Political Organisation | 73 |
PART III The New Political Instrument | 81 |
Chapter 10 The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument | 83 |
Chapter 11 A New Paradigm for Internal Organisation | 100 |
The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process | 115 |
Signposts to an Alternative Path | 117 |
Chapter 13 The Left and Reform | 130 |
Chapter 14 The Bolivarian Revolution Is it a Revolution? | 139 |
Chapter 6 The Organic Crisis | 45 |
Chapter 7 The Theory Underlying This Concept of Party | 56 |
Chapter 8 Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible | 66 |
Notes | 152 |
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