In this Book
- Capitalism’s Crises: Class struggles in South Africa and the world
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Wits University Press
- Series: Democratic Marxisms
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The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time the volume situates left agency within actual patterns of resistance and class struggle to clarify the potential for transformative change. The cycle of resistance strengthened by the World Socal Forum and transnational activism is now punctuated by the experience of the Arab Spring, the agency of anti-systemic movements, left think tanks, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, labour unions, left parties in Europe such as Syrizia and Podemos and peoples' budgeting in Kerala, India. On the down side, we are witnessing the waning of the Workers Party in Brazil and serious challenges for South Africa's once powerful labour movement and still formative social justice activism. All these developments are assessed in this volume. This is the second volume in the Democratic Marxism series. It elaborates on crucial themes introduced in the first volume, Marxism in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique and Struggle (edited by Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar).Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)
Table of Contents

- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-viii
- Tables and Figures
- p. xi
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- pp. xii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Part One: Contemporary understandings of capitalism’s crises and Class Struggle
- Part Two: Capitalist crisis and Left responses in the Global North
- Part Three: Capitalist crisis and Left responses in the Global South
- Conclusion
- pp. 277-283
- Contributors
- pp. 284-286
Additional Information
ISBN
9781868149261
Related ISBN(s)
9781868149209, 9781868149247
MARC Record
OCLC
1016601253
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2015