Capitalism’s Crises

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Alfredo Saad-Filho. Capitalism’s Crises

CONTENTS

TABLES AND FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CRISES OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM: SAME AS BEFORE OR UNPRECEDENTED?

CLASS STRUGGLE AND AGENCY OF THE LEFT

DEMOCRATIC MARXIST PERSPECTIVES: THE CONJUNCTURE OF CAPITALIST CRISES AND TRANSFORMATIVE RESISTANCE

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 1: FROM MARX TO THE SYSTEMIC CRISES OF CAPITALIST CIVILISATION

MARX’S UNDERSTANDING OF CAPITALIST CRISIS

LIMITS AND CHALLENGES TO MARX’S UNDERSTANDING OF CAPITALIST CRISES

PERIODISING THE MAKING OF CAPITALIST CIVILISATION

THE CRISES OF CAPITALIST CIVILISATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Financialised chaos

Climate crisis

Peak oil

Food-system crisis

The securitisation of democracy

CATASTROPHISM OR TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT?

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2: ACTIVIST UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE CRISIS

A DUAL CRISIS

PASSIVE REVOLUTION AND ANTI-PASSIVE REVOLUTION

TRANSNATIONAL ALTERNATIVE POLICY GROUPS AS MOVEMENT INTELLECTUALS

ACTIVIST INTELLECTUALS REFLECT ON THE CRISIS

Prognoses and challenges

Opportunities and openings

BEYOND CRISIS, TOWARDS A GLOBAL LEFT?

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 3: OCCUPY AND THE DIALECTICS OF THE LEFT IN THE UNITED STATES

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE US

STATE OF THE LEFT AND RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS

PREFIGURING ANOTHER WORLD

THREE ANTAGONISMS OF OCCUPY

THE PATH AHEAD

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 4: AUSTERITY AND RESISTANCE: THE POLITICS OF LABOUR IN THE EUROZONE CRISIS

UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT IN THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

THE UNDERLYING DYNAMICS OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EUROPEAN FORM OF STATE

EUROPEAN LABOUR IN THE EUROZONE CRISIS. Labour losing ground

What possibilities for labour to resist restructuring?

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 5: BEYOND SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC AND COMMUNIST PARTIES: LEFT POLITICAL ORGANISATION IN TRANSITION IN WESTERN EUROPE

THE LASTING POLITICAL LEGACY OF THE REVOLTS OF THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES. Exhaustion of the social democratic and communist traditions

Two understandings of power

Power-as-transformative-capacity

Can power-as-domination be a resource for power-as-transformative-capacity?

The changing historical circumstances of the two sources of power and their relationship

Power-as-transformative-capacity: A decisive weakening of nationally organised labour

Power-as-domination: Globalisation, corporate domination, financial and institutional crisis

Organisational form according to purpose

TWO HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES OF MOVEMENTS ENGAGING WITH GOVERNMENT

In and against the state in the UK

The British Labour Party: The ambiguities of trade union/party links

Workers enter Whitehall – shock!

Workers, black activists, gays and lesbians and women enter County Hall – shock!

Lessons to carry forward

When the balance of power is shifted …

The extent of corporate capture

The intensity of class war

The internationalisation of the terrain of conflict

Mechanisms of marginalisation

The importance of autonomy

Hacking political institutions?

Party realities: Hopes, traps, blocks and illusions

The context of parties of the radical Left in the 1990s

The Norwegian Left Party: Influential but invisible

Rifondazione Comunista: Too deeply in the state to be against it

Emerging themes and questions

SYRIZA AND PODEMOS: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITS OF LEFT POPULISM?

Podemos and the challenge of left populism

Combining defensive action with transformative capacity in conditions of economic and political crisis

Left populism and its importance now

The Chartist tradition

Questions for the future of political organisation

Networked political organisation

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 6: BRAZIL: FROM NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY TO THE END OF THE ‘LULA MOMENT’

IMPORT SUBSTITUTION INDUSTRIALISATION

THE TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY AND TO NEOLIBERALISM

THE FIRST LULA ADMINISTRATION

THE SECOND LULA ADMINISTRATION

DILMA ROUSSEFF’S ADMINISTRATIONS

DISTRIBUTIONAL SHIFTS UNDER LULA AND DILMA

CHALLENGES FOR THE LEFT

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 7: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ‘RESILIENCE’: THE CASE OF INDIA

ECONOMIC REFORMS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF INDIA’S GROWTH PROCESS

IMPACT OF THE CRISIS

INDIA’S RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS

CLASS DYNAMICS AND THE HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT

ALTERNATIVES FOR GENUINE DECOUPLING

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 8: UNDERSTANDING THE LABOUR CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA: REAL WAGE TRENDS AND THE MINERALS–ENERGY COMPLEX ECONOMY

THE LABOUR ARISTOCRACY THESIS

REAL WAGES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

ROBOTS OR CLASS WAR? THE ECONOMIC DEBATE ON WAGE INEQUALITY

EXPLAINING LABOUR’S DEFEAT: THE MINERALS–ENERGY COMPLEX AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS

EXPLAINING LABOUR’S DEFEAT: THE MYTHS OF OVERREGULATION AND UNION MILITANCY

MARIKANA AND THE UNPATRIOTIC BOURGEOISIE

CONCLUSION: SOCIAL CONTRACTS, ‘LULA MOMENTS’ AND THE WAY FORWARD

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 9: SEIZE POWER! THE ROLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN UNITING A STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA

ANTI-IDEOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS

Three visions of radical transformation: Economic freedom, socialism and social justice

The Treatment Action Campaign is a case in point

Social justice and the transformation of property relations

WHY DOES THE LEFT ESCHEW USE OF THE LAW AND COURTS AS INSTRUMENTS FOR TRANSFORMATION?

An alternative tradition? Realising law’s transformative possibility

The constitution and its critics: Right and Left

The power we neglect at our peril

The constitution governs the conduct of private power and mandates economic transformation

The constitution requires the government to respect, protect, promote and fulfill a range of socio-economic rights

The constitution demands accountability of public officials

The constitution describes the ‘basic values and principles’ of lawful government

CONCLUSION: TOWARDS A NEW POLITICS OF STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

NOTES

REFERENCES

CONCLUSION

RETHINKING CAPITALISM’S CRISES

TRANSFORMATIVE ALTERNATIVES AND CLASS STRUGGLE

THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND JUST TRANSITION

CONTRIBUTORS

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