Rebuilding the left/ (Record no. 155204)
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| fixed length control field | 00331nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781842772560 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 320.5 |
| Item number | HAR/R |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harnecker, Marta |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Rebuilding the left/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Marta Harnecker |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Zed Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | vii, 168 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part I The Left and the New World 5 <br/>1 Profound Changes in the World 7 <br/>A unit in real time on a planetary scale 8 <br/>The internationalisation of the production process 8 <br/>The nature of the state changes but its role is not reduced 12 <br/>The communications revolution in the service of capital 19 <br/>Fragmenting strategy 22 <br/>The military danger 23 <br/>The phenomenon of imperialism has not disappeared, but has taken on new forms 25 <br/>2 Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind 27 <br/>Decline in the standard of living 28 <br/>The new international cycle 29 <br/>3 Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social Bloc 32 <br/>The need to rebuild the Left so that it can become the glue that sticks the social opposition together 32 <br/>Building a broad anti-neo-liberal social and political bloc 34 <br/>Capitalist sectors in direct contradiction to the transnationals 35 <br/>Part II The Crises of 'Party' and Why We Need a New Left Political Culture 37 <br/>4 Crisis of Theory 39 <br/>Threefold origin 39 <br/>A crisis of Marxism doesn't mean we have to deny Marx's contributions 41 <br/>5 Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility 42 <br/>No plan for an alternative to capitalism 42 <br/>Crisis of the credibility of politics and politicians 43 <br/>6 The Organic Crisis 45 <br/>There is no political subject equal to the new challenges 45 <br/>How copying the Bolshevik model led to deviations 46 <br/>Other mistakes and deviations 50 <br/>7 The Theory Underlying This Concept of Party 56 <br/>Some explanation for these errors: Kautsky's thesis 56 <br/>How this is reflected in the conception of the revolutionary party 63 <br/>8 Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible 66 <br/>Is it possible to come up with an alternative? 66 <br/>Politics cannot be defined as the art of the possible 67 <br/>Utopian goals: a source of inspiration 70 <br/>Changing the traditional vision of politics 70 <br/>Overcoming the narrow definition of power 71 <br/>Politics as the art of building a social force in opposition to the system 71<br/>9 Why We Need a Political Organisation 73 <br/>The effects of the ruling ideology 74 <br/>Manufacturing consent 74 <br/>Direct knowledge and indirect knowledge 76 <br/>Drawing up a social project that is an alternative to capitalism 77 <br/>The need to give millions of people a single will 78 <br/>Part III The New Political Instrument 81 <br/>10 The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument 83 <br/>Understanding the importance of social practice for creating consciousness 83 <br/>An organisation immersed in society 84 <br/>Overcoming hegemonism 86 <br/>Creating a new relationship with the popular movement 87 <br/>No more workerism 90 <br/>A body to coordinate all the different emancipatory social practices 91 <br/>Democracy: the cause to champion 91 <br/>An organisation which is the harbinger of the new society 91 <br/>11 A New Paradigm for Internal Organisation 100 <br/>Unite your members around a community of values and a concrete programme 100 <br/>Contemplating different kinds of membership 101 <br/>Giving up authoritarian methods 104 <br/>There is no political effectiveness without unified leadership 105 <br/>A political organisation for those exploited and excluded by capitalism 112 <br/>A political organisation which is not naive but is preparing itself for any eventuality 112 <br/>New internationalist practice for the globalised world 114 <br/>Part IV From Reforms to Revolution: The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process 115 <br/>12 Local Governments: Signposts to an Alternative Path 117 <br/>The problem of knowing how to govern 119 <br/>The party's weakness vis-a-vis the government 120 <br/>The bureaucratic apparatus and how to contend with it 122 <br/>Popular participation in the government 125 <br/>The participatory budget: the key to participation and politicisation 126 <br/>13 The Left and Reform 130 <br/>Has the Left become reformist? 130 <br/>Varieties of reformism 132 <br/>Specific challenges in the election arena 136 <br/>A creative approach to the a-legal 138 <br/>14 The Bolivarian Revolution <br/>Is It a Revolution? 139 <br/>The state takes the initiative in changing the rules of the game and creating spaces for participation 139 <br/>Participation and human development in the Bolivarian Constitution 140 <br/>The communal councils: local spaces ideal for allowing everyone to participate 140 <br/>Encouraging worker participation 145 <br/>The state from a revolutionary perspective 149 <br/>On the political instrument that could move these ideas forward 149. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Socialism -- History -- 20th century. |
| -- | Socialism -- Latin America -- 20th century. |
| -- | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 320.5 HAR/R | P09997 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |