Radical politics have been defined in modern times-and
distinguished from earlier traditions of protest-by the idea that
economic, social and political structures are contradictory.
Systems of exploitation create not only wealth and prosperity for
the powerful, but at the same time bring into being the forces
which ensure their own eventual downfall. But it is a large step
from the general assertion that social forms contain their own
contradictions to analysis of the specific contradictions which
occur in a given historical context, their interaction and
movement, and their possible historical outcomes.
This collection of essays examines social contradictions in the
age of globalization in which old antagonisms often appear to be
overcome, and new cracks are emerging in the facade of capitalist
progress. Where do they occur? Where can they be expected to appear
in future? How can they be grasped in a spirit of sober radicalism,
which neither accepts the limits of the present nor overcomes them
through wishful thinking alone? What possibilities do they offer
for mobilizing resistance? These issues define an agenda which is
critical for socialism in our time.
Contributors to this volume are especially concerned with
capitalism as a global system today, dependent on the strength of
the U.S. economy and currency and on global financial institutions
such as the World Bank capable of carrying out the capitalist
agenda. They provide a timely and critical analysis of what big
corporations want and of the problems their agenda creates for
their own continued dominance and prosperity.
Contributors include: Jim O'Connor, Ellen Wood, Gerard Dumenil,
Aijaz Ahmad, Naomi Klein, Mino Carchedi, Reg Whitaker, Peter
Golding and Graham Murdock, Mike Kidron, David Harvey, Pablo
Gonzalez-Casanova, Elmar Altvater, Paul Cammack.
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