The great demonstrations at Seattle and Genoa have shown that we
are in a new era of protest. The neo-liberal economic policies
pursued by the Group of Seven leading industrial countries and the
international institutions they control are provoking widespread
resistance. Growing numbers of people in all five continents are
rejecting the values of the market and the vision of a world made
safe for the multinational corporations.
But what does the anti-globalization movement stand for? Is it,
as its most common name suggests, against globalization itself? Is
it opposed merely to the neo-liberal Washington Consensus that
became dominant in the 1980s and 1990s, or is its real enemy the
capitalist system itself? The World Social Forum at Porto Alegre
has popularized the slogan 'Another World is Possible'. But what is
that world?
Alex Callinicos seeks to answer these questions in "An
Anti-Capitalist Manifesto," He analyses the development of the
movement, distinguishes between the different political forces
within it, and explores the strategic dilemmas - notably over
violence and the nation-state - that it increasingly confronts. He
argues that the movement is directed against capitalism itself. The
logic of competitive accumulation that drives this system is not
only increasing global inequality and economic instability, but
threatens ecological catastrophe and appalling conflict. To meet
the challenge of global capitalism the new protest movement
requires, according to Callinicos, a creative synthesis of its own
inclusive and dynamic style and the best of the classical Marxist
tradition.
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