VOICES ON THE LEFT

Παρουσίαση

"This is not an interview mate, but an intense interrogation". That was the reply I received after sending my list of questions, in written form, to one of the people that I interviewed for this volume. It could be argued that, at least in a way, they were right. The interviews included here attempt to grasp as much as possible of the political life and intellectual work of the interviewees. In other words, its aim is to present their political formation as much as their positioning in key debates they engaged in throughout their academic careers.

George Souvlis's probing interviews give us insight into the minds and intellectual contributions of some of the most innovative and penetrating Marxist social scientists of our era. This book is a vital contribution to the development of critical thought on a range of theoretical dilemmas and will help us sharpen our approach to the political questions of today.
(Richard Lachmann, Professor in Comparative/Historical Sociology and Political Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY)
Artisans and partisans of socialism will be profoundly grateful to George Souvlis and his diverse interlocutors for this panoramic and intimate survey of contemporary left-radical thought and strategy. With deeply informed and judicious questions, Souvlis digs into the most pressing questions of revolutionary praxis today, with delightful attention to biography, history and theory, while weaving together various strands of Marxist, feminist and anti-colonial critique, to produce a volume of exemplary insight and inspiration.
(Kanishka Goonewardena, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto)
This wide-ranging compendium of interviews with key thinkers on the Marxist left is replete with insights on what C. Wright Mills once called 'the problems of history, the problems of biography and the problems of social structure in which biography and history intersect'. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to get their bearings around some of the most vital and contested areas of contemporary theorising and their urgent political stakes.
(Alberto Toscano, Reader In Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea)

Περιεχόμενα

-Acknowledgments
-Foreword by David McNally
-Introduction by George Souvlis
1.Debates on the historical sociology of capitalism: the Political Marxist tradition and beyond.
Charlie Post, Class, Race and Capital-centric Marxism
Neil Davidson, The National Question, Class and the European Union
Alexander Anievas, How the West Came to Rule
Benno Teschke, Rethinking International Relations
2. Marxist Feminisms: historicizing the debate from 1970 and onwards and its relevance for the current struggles.
Kathi Weeks, Feminism and the refusal of work
Sara Farris, Marxism, Religion and Femonationalism
Cinzia Arruzza, Feminist Organising and the Women's Strike
Silvia Federici, Feminism and Social Reproduction
Morgane Merteuil, Sex work can be emancipatory only as a collective process
3. Political Economies of the current Global Order: Eurozone, Stagnant Capitalism and beyond
Costas Lapavitsas, The Future of Greece
Gareth Dale, From war economies to the War on Terra
Kevin Gray, Labour and Resistance in Asia
Werner Bonefeld, Ordoliberalism and the Death of Liberal Democracy
4. Marxism & Political Theory: "Gramsci, Althusser, Perry Anderson and others.
Peter D. Thomas, Historical Materialism at Sixteen
Warren Montag, Althusser, Spinoza and Revolution in Philosophy
Dylan Riley, Fascism and Democracy
Esther Leslie, For a Marxist Poetics of Science
5. Political developments on the Left: From Latin American to European and Beyond
Jeffery Webber, Latin America: From Reform to Resistance
Bhaskar Sunkara, Marxism, culture, and class analysis, for the 21th century
Cornel West, Black America's neo-liberal sleepwalking is coming to an end
Laleh Khalili, Logistics, Counterinsurgency and the War on Terror
Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Struggle
6. Debates on the field of History: Marxism, the Far right and Subversive Subjectivities
Geoff Eley, Europe, Democracy and the Left
Enzo Traverse, Marxism, the far-right and the antinomies of liberalism
Mike Davis, Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely
Tithi Bhattacharya, The Colonial, Postcolonial and the Politics of Anti-Imperialism
Epilogue: Left Intellectuals at a Critical Juncture by Eugenia Siapera
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