Rebuilding the Left

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Zed Books, 2007 - 168 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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Introduction
1
Profound Changes in the World
7
Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind
27
Crisis of Theory
39
The Organic Crisis
45
The Theory Underlying This Concept of Party
56
Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible
66
Why We Need a Political Organisation
73
The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument
83
A New Paradigm for Internal Organisation
100
Signposts to an Alternative Path
117
The Left and Reform
130
The Bolivarian Revolution Is It a Revolution?
139
Notes
152
Index
163
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Sobre el autor (2007)

Marta Harnecker is a sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist. After studying with Louis Althusser in Paris she returned to her native Chile, but was forced into exile following the military coup against Salvador Allende's government. In Cuba she ran the research institute Memoria Popular Latinoamerica (MEPLA) and continues to write. She has published over 60 books to date, from her classic The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism to the more recent The Left after Seattle. An ardent defender of the Bolivarian revolution, Harnecker's most recent books are Hugo Chávez Frias: un hombre, un pueblo; Venezuela: Militares junto al pueblo and Venezuela: una revolución sui generis. Short bio: Marta Harnecker is the director of Memoria Popular Latinoamericana, a research organisation focusing on the history of popular movements in Latin America.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloRebuilding the Left
AutorMarta Harnecker
Ediciónen Braille
EditorZed Books, 2007
ISBN1842772570, 9781842772577
N.º de páginas168 páginas
  
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