Augmenting the Left – New Special Issue of Global Discourse

New Special Issue,  Augmenting the Left,  Global Discourse volume 8, issue 2. 

ABSTRACT
Nine papers with respective replies, grounded in Marxist traditions, analyse the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of the far Right worldwide. Papers variously take up new lines of analysis, while also identifying and theorizing strategies and possibilities for increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. Authors are drawn variously from Australia, Britain, Canada, Cyprus, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Slovenia, and the United States. They comprise new scholars as well as established and leading theorists and activists. Collectively, the papers address three predominant themes: the changing and expanding conceptualization on the Left of contemporary capitalism; what it means to speak of ‘the people’ in relation to political action today; and approaches to mobilizing and organizing that people. The wide-ranging but focused and rigorous insights produced across the pieces are aimed at speaking to scholars, students, observers, and activists who seek knowledge about the challenges and opportunities the Left faces today.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
Augmenting the Left – Introduction
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Part 1: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CAPITALIST PRESENT

Article
Contemporary Capitalism, Uneven Development, and the Arc of Anti-Capitalism
Robert Latham

Reply:  Arto Bohos Artinian

 
Article
Neo-Liberalism as a Historical Stage
Kojin Karatani

Reply:  Joel Wainwright

Article:
‘Life Finds a Way’: Mapping a Post-Positivist Marxian dadaScience

A.T. Kingsmith
Julian von Bargen

Reply: Athina Karatzogianni

 

Part 2: MOBILIZING THE LEFT

Article
Rethinking the Left: A View from Latin America
Ronaldo Munck

Reply: Henry Veltmeyer

 
Article
The National Question, Partition and Geopolitics in the 21st Century: The Cyprus Problem and the Left
Nicos Trimikliniotis

Reply: Vasilios Loakimidis

Article
Strategies for a Radical Left: A Contribution
Kieran Allen

Reply: Craig Willse

PART 3: WHO ARE THE PEOPLE?

Article
Who’s Afraid of the People? The Debate Between Political Agoraphobia And Political Agoraphilia
Francis Dupui-Deri

Reply: Ziga Vodovnik

Article
Refugees in Greece, the Greeks as ‘Refugees’
Aspasia Velissariou

Reply: John Milios

 

Article
Re-imagining The Left Through an Ecology Of The Commons: Toward A Post-capitalist Commons Transition
Michel Bauwens
Jose Ramos

Reply: Graham Murdock

Discussion Piece:
Expanding the Horizon: For a Libertarian Marxism
Michael Lowy
Olivier Besancenot

Translated by Lina Nasr El Hag Ali

Reply: Michael Yates

 

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Global Discourse, Vol. 8, Issue 2.