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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)

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Series Page, Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Tables and Figures
  2. p. xi
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  1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
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  1. Introduction
  2. Vishwas Satgar
  3. pp. 1-18
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  1. Part One: Contemporary understandings of capitalism’s crises and Class Struggle
  1. Chapter 1: From Marx to the systemic crises of capitalist civilisation
  2. Vishwas Satgar
  3. pp. 20-49
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  1. Chapter 2: Activist understandings of the crisis
  2. William K Carroll
  3. pp. 50-76
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  1. Part Two: Capitalist crisis and Left responses in the Global North
  1. Chapter 3: Occupy and the dialectics of the Left in the United States
  2. Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Isham Christie
  3. pp. 78-96
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  1. Chapter 4: Austerity and resistance: The politics of labour in the Eurozone crisis
  2. Andreas Bieler, Jamie Jordan
  3. pp. 97-122
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  1. Chapter 5: Beyond social-democratic and communist parties: Left political organisation in transition in Western Europe
  2. Hilary Wainwright
  3. pp. 123-164
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  1. Part Three: Capitalist crisis and Left responses in the Global South
  1. Chapter 6: Brazil: From neoliberal democracy to the end of the ‘Lula moment’
  2. Alfredo Saad-Filho
  3. pp. 166-188
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  1. Chapter 7: The global financial crisis and ‘resilience’: The case of India
  2. Sumangala Damodaran
  3. pp. 189-210
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  1. Chapter 8: Understanding the labour crisis in South Africa: Real wage trends and the minerals–energy complex economy
  2. Niall Reddy
  3. pp. 211-244
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  1. Chapter 9: Seize power! The role of the constitution in uniting a struggle for social justice in South Africa
  2. Mark Heywood
  3. pp. 245-276
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  1. Conclusion
  2. Vishwas Satgar
  3. pp. 277-283
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 284-286
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 287-298
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  1. Back Cover
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