Revolutions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Desai, Radhika; Heller, Henry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000454017
• Artikelnr.: 62087426

Autorenporträt

Radhika Desai is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada, the Director of the Geopolitical Economy and the President of the Society for Socialist Studies. Henry Heller is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Revolutions: a twenty-first-century perspective



Radhika Desai and Henry Heller



1. The Russian Revolution at 100: the Soviet experience in the mirror of permanent counterrevolution



Kees van der Pijl



2. Colours of a revolution. Post-communist society, global capitalism and the Ukraine crisis



Ruslan Dzarasov and Victoria Gritsenko



3. Building socialism: from 'scientific' to 'active' Marxism



David Lane



4. Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)



Aleksandr Buzgalin and Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina



5. The Chinese Revolution and the Communist International



Enfu Cheng and Jun Yang



6. Marx's critical political economy, 'Marxist economics' and actually occurring revolutions against capitalism



Radhika Desai



7. Continuity and change in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution



Julia Buxton



8. A political economy for social movements and revolution: popular media access, power and cultural hegemony



Lee Artz



9. Bush/revolution: theses on the challenges that gatherers and hunters pose to dominant structures



Peter Kulchyski



10. The communitarian revolutionary subject: new forms of social transformation



David Barkin and Alejandra Sánchez



11. Hegel, Haiti and revolution: the post-colonial moment



Henry Heller