Rebuilding the Left
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2007
History
vii, 168 pages ; 23 cm
9781842772560, 9781842772577, 1842772562, 1842772570
85485146
IntroductionPart I: The Left and the New World1. Profound Changes in the World2. Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind3. Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social BlocPart II: The Crises of 'Party' and Why we Need a New Left Political Culture4. Crisis of Theory5. Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility6. The Organic Crisis7. The Theory Underlying this Concept of Party8. Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible9. Why we Need a Political OrganizationPart III: The New Political Instrument10. The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument11. A New Paradigm for Internal OrganizationPart IV: From Reforms to Revolution: The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process12. Local Governments: Signposts to an Alternative Path13. The Left and Reform14. The Bolivarian Revolution - Is It a Revolution?NotesIndex