From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon May 14 2007 - 08:15:20 EDT
----------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- There-Is-An-Alternative, Let's Build It Now Ravi Kumar Michael Lebowitz, Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, Monthly Review Press, New York (Daanish Books, Delhi), 2006. "In the various struggles of people for human dignity and social justice, a vision of an alternative socialist society has always been latent. Let us reclaim and renew that vision" (p. 60). I The crisis of capitalism could not be more overt and exposed, but the instruments of survival at its disposal - both material and ideological - are also very effective with growing financialisation, commodification and consumerism. There are stark similarities in the way the welfarist face of the State has been on wane, along with its increased instrumentalisation in favour of global capital, in the so-called developed world and the inappropriately coined euphemistic developing world. At the level of movements too, if at one moment and place we hear sagas of popular and sustained confrontation against the global capital, the next we see a fragmented and weakened struggle against capital. <http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/44/39/>
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