Leo Panitch

Greg Albo

Alan Zuege

Socialist Register Reader Vol 2

Capitalism, Technology, Labor

For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking analysis, free of dogma or sectarian positions. Transforming Classes is a compendium of socialist thought today and a clarifying account of class struggle in the early twenty-first-century, from China to the United States.

Socialist Register 2015

Transforming Classes

Jerome Klassen

The war in Afghanistan has been a major policy commitment and central undertaking of the Canadian state since 2001: Canada has been a leading force in the war, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on aid and reconstruction. After a decade of conflict, however, there is considerable debate about the efficacy of the mission, as well as calls to reassess Canada’s role in the conflict. An authoritative and strongly analytical work, Empire’s Ally provides a much-needed critical investigation into one of the most polarizing events of our time. This collection draws on new primary evidence – including government documents, think tank and NGO reports, international media files, and interviews in Afghanistan – to provide context for Canadian foreign policy, to offer critical perspectives on the war itself, and to link the conflict to broader issues of political economy, international relations, and Canada’s role on the world stage. Spanning academic and public debates, Empire’s Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered a stage of crisis.

Canada and the War in Afghanistan

Empire's Ally

What is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century? One hundred years ago, the events of October 1917 inspired socialists and oppressed peoples around the world, and it became an inevitable point of reference for twentieth-century politics. Today the Left needs to both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects -- those positive and negative -- on political, intellectual and cultural life.

Socialist Register 2017

Rethinking Revolution

One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as impossible as revolution, leaving the left to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises, as well as the conceptual tension between revolution and reform. Populated by an array of passionate thinkers and thoughtful activists, Rethinking Revolution reappraises the historical effects of the Russian revolution—positive and negative—on political, intellectual, and cultural life, and looks at consequent revolutions after 1917. Change needs to be understood in relation to the distinct trajectories of radical politics in different regions. But the main purpose of this Socialist Register edition—one century after “Red October”—is to look forward, to what might happen next. Acclaimed authors interrogate and explore compelling issues, including: • Greg Albo: New socialist strategies—or detours? • Jodi Dean: Are the multitudes communing? Revolutionary agency and political forms today. • Adolph Reed: Are racial minorities revolutionary agents? • Zillah Eisenstein: Revolutionary feminisms today. • Nina Power: Accelerated technology, decelerated revolution. • David Schwartzman: Beyond global warming: Is solar communism possible? • Andrea Malm: Revolution and counter-revolution in an era of climate change.

Vivek Chibber

Socialists today have to confront two realities - that they cannot avoid the question of reforms and a gradualist path out of capitalism; and that the organizational vehicles for socialism will most likely have to abide by different structures and principles than those that dominated left politics in the 20th century. Though solutions are not obvious, Socialist Register 2012 will interrogate these dilemmas and will the critique of some unhelpful radical thinking that obstructs the reconsideration of socialist strategy for the 21st century.

The Question of Strategy

Marksist düşüncenin uluslararası alanda etkili ve prestijli yayını Socialist Register, 2013 yılındaki sayısını, solun stratejik yaklaşımlarına ayırdı. Halen içinden geçmekte olduğumuz ekonomik ve toplumsal kriz, dünyanın farklı coğrafyalarında farklı şiddetlerde varlığını hissettirirken, sol neler yaptı, neler yapmalıydı? Arap Baharı, ABD’deki İşgal (Occupy) hareketleri, Yunanistan’da Syriza’nın yükselişi, İspanya’da Öfkeliler hareketi ve başka coğrafyalardaki dalgalanmalarla birlikte düşündüğümüzde, tüm dünyada eğer “kendiliğinden” hareketlerin ötesine geçilecek ve hem “kriz” hem de “sistem” gerçekten aşılacaksa, solun önüne ciddi ve yeni stratejik hedeﬂer koyabilmesi gerekiyor. İşte elinizde tuttuğunuz bu kitap, gerek krizin boyutlarını gerekse onun farklı okumalarından hareketle solun stratejik anlamda yapması gerekenleri tartışma masasına yatırıyor. Marksist düşüncenin üç yetkin ismi, Leo Panitch, Greg Albo ve Vivek Chibber’ın yayına hazırladığı Strateji Sorunu, krizin temel ve tali dinamiklerini, sendikal mücadelede değişenleri ve işçi meclislerini, otonom hareketler ile katılımcı ve şeﬀaf karar mekanizmalarını, Batı’da ve Latin Amerika’da sol partilerde yaşanan dönüşümü, sosyalist-feminist hareketlerin yeni stratejik yaklaşımlarını, sosyalizm ve komünizm kavramlarının geleceğini tartışan makalelerden oluşuyor. Hepsi strateji sorunu ekseninde ve “bugün, sol ne yapmalı?” diye düşünenlerin zihinlerini açacak kalibrede…

Socialist Register 2013

Strateji Sorunu

A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization taking place, or will globalization continue to deepen, but still deny the free cross-border movement of labor? Would such an unwinding entail an overall shift in power and accumulation to specific regions of the Global South that might overturn the current world order and foster the disintegration of the varied regional blocs that have formed? These questions are addressed through a series of essays that carefully map the national, class, racial, and gender dimensions of the state, capitalism, and progressive forces today. Sober assessment is crucial for the left to gain its political bearings in this trying period and the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Socialist Register 2019

The World Turned Upside Down?

Yılda bir kez yayınlanan saygın uluslararası Marksist dergi, bu sayısında krizi tartışıyor. Sendikal kazanımların ve emekçilerin sosyal haklarının hedef alınacağı yeni bir kemer sıkma dönemine mi giriyoruz? Bu soru, Socialist Register 2011'in çıkış noktasını oluşturuyor. Sol ayakta kalmak istiyorsa, kriz hakkında siyasi ve ekonomik boyutları bir arada sunacak, ayakları yere basan değerlendirme ve çözümlemeler getirmek zorunda. Solun bu çabasına katkı olması amacıyla hazırlanan bu sayıda ele alınan konu başlıklarından bazıları şunlar: • Tarihsel ve kuramsal çerçevede “bu defaki kriz” • Bankalar ve türev ürünlerin küresel finansallaşmadaki rolü • ABD, İngiltere, Avrupa, Japonya ve Güney Afrika'da krizin yansımaları • Krizin işçi aileleri üzerinde yarattığı etkiler • “Krizden çıkış stratejileri” ile neoliberalizmin yaşama döndürülüşü • Yunanistan, İrlanda, İngiltere ve ABD'de kemer sıkma politikalarına karşı direniş Birbiriyle bağlantılı iki sayının ilki olarak hazırlanan bu sayıda, neoliberal kapitalizmi yeniden canlandırmaya yönelmiş “krizden çıkış stratejileri” hakkında eleştirel bakış açıları sunma, krizin emekçi sınıflar üzerindeki toplumsal ve siyasi etkilerini ele alma amacı güdülüyor. Yazılarıyla katkıda bulunanlar: Sam Ashman, Karl Beitel, Riccardo Bellofiore, Johanna Brenner, Dick Bryan, Noam Chomsky, Bryan Evans, Ben Fine, Julie Froud, Francesco Garibaldo, Sam Gindin, Joseph Halevi, Doug Henwood, Michael Moran, R. Taggart Murphy, Susan Newman, Adriana Nilsson, Hugo Radice, Mike Rafferty, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Anwar Shaikh, Susanne Soederberg, Karel Williams

Socialist Register 2011

Bu Defaki Kriz

Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justice. How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.

Socialist Register 2020

Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living

For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gaining currency in theoretical and political debate. Now that capitalist democracies are facing seismic and systemic challenges, it becomes increasingly important to investigate not only the inherent antagonism between liberalism and the democratic process, but also socialism. Is socialism an enemy of democracy? Could socialism develop, expand, even enhance democracy? While this volume seeks a reappraisal of existing liberal democracy today, its main goal is to help lay the foundation for new visions and practices in developing a real socialist democracy. Amid the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism today, the responsibility to sort out the relationship between socialism and democracy has never been greater. No revival of socialist politics in the twenty-first century can occur without founding new democratic institutions and practices.

Socialist Register 2018

Rethinking Democracy

Bryan M. Evans

No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the-art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right.

Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Divided Province

Colin Leys

Takes the buzzword "polarization" as its point of departure to describe the vast, and ever-growing economic inequality worldwide "Polarization" is a word commonly used by everyone from mainstream journalists to the person in the street, whatever their political stripe. But this widely recognized phenomenon deserves scrutiny. The 58th volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge, asking such questions as: Are the current tendencies towards polarization new, and if so, what is their significance? What underlying contradictions—between race, class, income, gender, and geopolitics—do the latest polarization trends expose? And to what extent can "centrist" politics continue to hold and contain these internal contradictions? This volume's original essays examine the escalating polarization of national, racial, generational, and other identities, all in the context of growing economic inequality, new forms of regional and urban antagonism, "vaccine nationalism," and the shifting parameters of rivalry between the "Great Powers."

Socialist Register 2022

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism

Contributors to this volume on economic crisis address key themes: -putting 'the crisis this time' in historical and theoretical perspective -analyzing the role of banks and derivatives in global financialization -interrogating Wall Street and the City of London before and after the crisis -surveying the crisis in the USA, the UK, Europe, Japan and South Africa -taking the measure of the impact of the crisis on working class families -showing how 'exit strategies' are reviving neoliberalism -surveying the struggles against the new public austerity in Greece, Ireland, UK and USA This volume ù the first of two ù offers critical perspectives on 'exit strategies' geared towards revitalizing neoliberal capitalism and considers the social and political impact of the crisis on the working class. Next year's volume will extend the geographical focus to China, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America, and deepen the analysis of the epicentre of the crisis in the USA.

The Crisis This Time

Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justice How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.

Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas from the independent new left. This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live with new technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from artificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to economic planning. Greg Albo - Post-capitalism: Alternatives or detours? Nicole Aschoff and Pankaj Mahta - AI-deology: Science, capitalism and the dream of a ‘people’s AI’ Hugo Radice - There is nothing artificial about AI: Labour, class, utopia, socialism Larry Lohman - Interpretation machines: Contradictions of digital mechanization in twenty-first century capitalism Robin Hahnel - Democratic socialist planning: Against, with and beyond the new technologies Tanner Mirrlees - Platform socialists in the age of digital capitalism Derek Hrynyshyn – Imagining information socialism Bryan Palmer - Capitalism and the clock: Time’s meaning in the struggle for socialism Sean Sweeney and John Treat - Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility Adam Greenfield - Smart cities, technological traps, democratic possibilities Christoph Hermann - The consequences of commodification: Contours of a post-capitalist society Joan Sangster – The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance Jeronimo Montero Bressan - Beyond neoliberal fashion: Imagining clothing production as a human need Massimiliano Mollona - Art/Commons: Art collectives and the post-capitalist imagination Ingar Solty – The world of tomorrow: Scenarios for our future between demise and hope

Socialist Register 2021

Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living

Vivek Chibber 

Çağdaş Marksizmin en önemli ve verimli tartışma kanallarından biri olan Socialist Register, 1917 Ekim Devrimi’nin yüzüncü yılını selamlayan özel bir sayı ile okuyucuyla buluşuyor. Leo Panitch ile Greg Albo’nun editörlüğünde hazırlanan bu sayı, Birleşik Krallık’tan İspanya ve Yunanistan’a radikal solun 21. yüzyıldaki serüvenine Ekim Devrimi merceğinden bakarken, Latin Amerika sosyalizmini ve Çin Devriminin mirasını da es geçmiyor. Güncel Marksizmin Slavoj Žižek, Leo Panitch, August H. Nimtz, Wang Hui gibi önde gelen düşünürleri, Socialist Register 2017’ye, Marx ve Engels’in devrimci partiye bakışları, sınıf ve parti lişkilerinin alabileceği biçimler, devrimin güncelliği ve devrimci iyimserlik gibi hiçbir zaman gündemden düşmeyecek kuramsal tartışmalarla misafir olurken, bugün farklı coğrafyalarda yaşanan gelişmeleri de değerlendiriyorlar. Ekim’in mirasını hem güncel hem de tarihsel boyutlarıyla ele alan, sosyalizmin 21. yüzyılda karşı karşıya olduğu önemli sorunların üstesinden gelmek için bu mirasın ne denli önemli olduğunun altını çizen, ufuk açıcı bir çalışma...

Devrimi Yeniden Düşünmek

Türkçe yayınını Yordam Kitap'ın üstlendiği, yılda bir sayı yayınlanan uluslararası dergi Socialist Register, dönemin en güncel konularını değerlendirmek üzere dünyanın önde gelen radikal düşünürlerini bir araya getiriyor. Bağımsız, sorgulayıcı ve derinlemesine analizler Socialist Register'ın hep alametifarikası olagelmiştir. Derginin 50. yılının kutlandığı "21. Yüzyılda Sınıflar ve Sınıf Mücadelesi" konulu bu sayı da bir istisna değil. Katkıda bulunan yazarlar, küresel ekonomik krizin ve bu krizin doğurduğu çeşitli direniş biçimlerinin ışığında sınıfla ilgili çeşitli varsayımları inceliyorlar. Hem kapitalist sınıfların, ekonomik çalkantı karşısında nasıl tepkiler gösterip yeniden örgütlendiklerini hem de 21. yüzyılda işçi sınıfının yapısı ile bileşiminin nasıl değiştiğini ele alıyorlar. Günümüzün değişen sınıf ve sınıf mücadelesi gerçeklerini anlamak isteyen herkes, Socialist Register'ın bu sayısını kesinlikle okumalıdır. "Socialist Register, 1964'ten bugüne düşünsel açıdan dünya solunun kutupyıldızı olagelmiştir." Mike Davis "Yakından takip ettiğim Socialist Register'ın ziyadesiyle ilham verici, çoğu kez paha biçilmez olduğunu düşünüyorum." Noam Chomsky "Kabul edilemez bulduğumuz bu toplumun alternatifsiz olduğu düşüncesine boyun eğmeyi reddedenler mutlaka okumalı." Daniel Singer "Sosyalizm daima demokrasi, insan hakları ve enternasyonalizmle ilgili olagelmiştir. ... Socialist Register'a damgasını vuran da işte bu inançtır." Tony Benn

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