Marxisms in the 21st Century

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John Saul. Marxisms in the 21st Century

Democratic Marxism Series

Acknowledgements

Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Reflections on Marxism in the Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Chapter 1. Marxism and Democracy: Liberal, Vanguard or Direct?

Liberal Critiques of Marxist-Inspired Soviet Communism

Marxist Critiques of Twentieth-Century Soviet Communism

Beyond Bifurcation: Direct Democracy In The Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Marxism After Polanyi

Marxism as an Evolving Tradition

Reconstructing Polanyi

First Wave: Classical Marxism

Second Wave: Soviet, Western and Third World Marxism

Third Wave: Sociological Marxism

Toward a global Marxism

Acknowledgement

Chapter 3. Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism

Returning to Gramsci’s Historical Materialism

Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism

The Rise of Neo-Gramscian Transnational Historical Perspectives

Key Themes of Neo-Gramscian Perspectives

Global restructuring of capitalism

Transnational class forces

Transnational neoliberalism and the rule of transnational capital

Understanding Post-Apartheid South Africa as a ‘Passive Revolution’

Rival Interpretations of post-apartheid South Africa’s transition

Approaching post-apartheid South Africa as a passive revolution

New Themes for a Transnationalising Neo-Gramscian Marxism

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Notes on Critique

Landmarks

Beginnings

A Relentless Criticism

Becoming Marxist

In Fits and Starts

Beginning Again

An-Other Power

Problematising Government

A New Distribution

Method

Frank Talk

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Marxism and Feminism: ‘Unhappy Marriage’ or Creative Partnership?

From Marxists and Feminists to Marxist Feminism

No women’s liberation without socialism!

No socialism without women’s liberation!

Marxist Feminism: Theorising Class and Gender

Dual systems theories

The expanded mode of production concept

The domestic labour debate

Social reproduction

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Marx and The Eco-Logic of Fossil Capitalism

Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of Promethean Marxism

The Capitalist Crisis and a Revival of Marx

Marx’s Ecology

Marx and Marxism

The Relevance Today

Sustainable (Holistic) Human Development

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Retrospect: Seven Theses about Africa’s Marxist Regimes

Thesis One

Thesis Two

Thesis Three

Thesis Four

Thesis Five

Thesis Six

Thesis Seven

Chapter 8. Socialism and Southern Africa

Tropes of Socialist Defeat

The Frontline States: The Tanzania Case

The Newly Liberated States and the Mozambican Case

Socialism in Southern Africa and The South African Case

Chapter 9. Uneven and Combined Marxism within South Africa’S Urban Social Movements

Contemporary South African Protest

Access

Localism and the geographic scales of protest organisation

Leadership

Tripartite Alliance Hegemony

Theorising The Strategic Impasse

Rights

Right to the city

‘Participation’

Combined and Uneven Development, Combined and Uneven Marxism

Afterword: Marikana’s Meanings (by Patrick Bond)

Acknowledgement

Chapter 10. Critical Reflections on The Crisis and Limits of Anc ‘Marxism’

The ‘Colonialism of a Special Type’ Thesis

Left Critiques of the CST Thesis

AFRO-Neoliberalism, Post-Apartheid Capitalism and a Floundering Nation-Building Project

African–Coloured Social Relations in the Western Cape

Provincialism and Retribalisation

Conclusion: Towards a Post-ANC, Post-Liberation Marxism

Acknowledgement

Conclusion

Beyond Vanguard Marxism

The Age of Many Marxisms

The Adventures of Democratic Marxism

Contributors

Index

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