New Realism, New Barbarism : Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The New Barbarism -- The Decade of Frustration -- The End of Alternatives? -- 'Modest' Socialism -- The Arrogant 'Civilization' -- The Barbarians at the Gates -- Building the Pyramids -- 1 The Left As it Is -- Electoral Successes, Political Failures -- The Neurosis of the Left -- 'Socialist Values' -- Reforms After the Revolution -- The New Realism -- The Dialectic of Reform -- Lessons from Eastern Europe -- The Case of South Africa -- The Rise of the Militant Right -- The Elitist Left -- What About the Workers? -- Returning to Struggle -- 2 De-Revising Marx -- What is Revisionism? -- The Time of Reaction -- Escaping from Utopia -- Reclaiming the Tradition -- 3 The Return of the Proletariat -- Post- industrial Mirage -- Technological Aristocracy -- The Crocodile Phenomenon -- Proletarianization -- Informal Work and Traditional Sector -- 4 New Technologies, New Struggles -- Pirates! -- Geopolitics of Knowledge -- The Struggles in Cyberspace -- 5 The New Periphery -- From Hope to Frustration -- Transition and History -- Capitalist Reality -- Nationalism: Myth of the Golden Age -- Non- capitalist Capitalism -- From 'Resisting the Change' to Changing the System -- No Way 'Back to the USSR' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Left As it Is -- 2 De- Revising Marx -- 3 The Return of the Proletariat -- 4 New Technologies, New Struggles -- 5 The New Periphery -- Conclusion -- Index -- African National Congress -- 22 -- 44-6 -- 49 -- 50 -- agriculture, role of 93 -- Albania -- 14-18 -- 19 -- 132 -- 138 -- Aleman, Arnoldo 27 -- apartheid, abolition of 49 -- Arab-Israeli war 126 -- authors' rights -- 109 -- 112 -- 113 -- Bahrain 113 -- Balbastre, Gilles 81 -- Ballaev, Andrey 30-1 -- barbarians 7-14 -- Barenboim, David 108 -- Barlow, John Perry 116-17 -- Belarus -- 130 -- 133.

Bell, D. 92 -- Berisha, Sali 15-16 -- Berlin Wall -- 5 -- 13 -- 20 -- Bernstein, Eduard -- 29 -- 65 -- 66 -- black market 129 -- Blair, Tony -- 38 -- 42 -- 56 -- 61 -- Block, Fred -- 68-9 -- 84 -- 88 -- Bobbio, Norberto 29 -- Bolsheviks 71 -- Borocz, Josef 125 -- bourgeoisification -- 97 -- 127 -- 137 -- Brazil 18 -- Brazilian Workers' Party -- 22 -- 41 -- Brezhnev, Leonid -- 126 -- 127 -- Brie, André and Michel -- 77 -- 79 -- Bulgaria -- 43 -- 111 -- Burbach, Roger 70 -- Business Software Alliance 104 -- Buzdugan, Yury 130-1 -- Buzgalin, Aleksandr -- 58 -- 107 -- Camdessus, Michel 14-15 -- capitalism -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -- 9-10 -- 34 -- Cardenál, Ernesto 26 -- Castellanos, Nayar Lopez 59 -- Catholicism, subsidiarity 35 -- Causa R 22 -- Chamorro, Violeta 26 -- change -- social 29 -- social 30 -- technological 66 -- Chiapas -- 2 -- 113 -- Chile 22 -- China -- 90 -- 110-11 -- 113 -- 130 -- Chirac, Jacques 20 -- Christiansen, Niels Finn 24 -- Chrysler 92 -- civil society 135-6 -- civilization -- 6-11 -- and exploitation 12 -- collapse of 7 -- collapse of 12-13 -- collapse of 19 -- development of 9-10 -- imitating 9-11 -- joining 11-12 -- Clarke, Simon 50 -- class reductionism 77 -- class struggle -- 71-2 -- and evolution of capitalism 70 -- self-organization 17 -- Cold War -- 28 -- 97 -- collectivism, and totalitarianism 27 -- Colombia -- 22 -- 103 -- and capitalism 28 -- collapse of 20 -- collapse of 33 -- collapse of 127 -- nationalist alternative to 133 -- revival of 143 -- transformation of 20 -- Communist Manifesto, The -- 63 -- 70 -- 145 -- Communist Party -- France 21 -- India 22-3 -- nationalist policies 139-40 -- threat of Internet 114-15 -- Communist Party of the Russian Federation [CPRF] 28 -- computer industry -- compulsory licensing 112 -- hardware monopoly 118-19 -- profits 105 -- profits 106-7.

property consciousness 119-20 -- software monopoly 110-12 -- transnational companies 110 -- computer piracy -- 104-9 -- and geopolitics 109-12 -- and viruses 109 -- authors' rights 109 -- authors' rights 112 -- creating demand 105-6 -- creating demand 107 -- legislation 109-10 -- propaganda against 107-9 -- prosecutions 105-6 -- prosecutions 108 -- solution to 112 -- undermining monopoly 110-12 -- computer programmers 88 -- computers -- 87-8 -- 94 -- 114 -- conformism -- 58 -- 60 -- consensus model 2 -- consultants 85 -- cooperative 38 -- corruption 15 -- COSATU trade unions 46-7 -- cost of 128-32 -- crisis -- 18-19 -- 56 -- 146 -- and economic efficiency 32 -- and employment 80 -- and external stabilizers 32 -- and external stabilizers 35-6 -- and growth 34-5 -- and justice 32 -- and justice 37 -- and local 'barbarism' 139 -- and Marxism 97 -- and Marxism 145 -- and reformism 36 -- and reformism 37 -- and reformism 40 -- and self-sufficiency 34-5 -- and technology 80 -- and working class 79 -- and working class 86-7 -- evolution of 66 -- evolution of 67 -- evolution of 70 -- German model 38-40 -- global system 67 -- global system 144 -- global system 146 -- peripheral 137-40 -- peripheral 141 -- peripheral 142 -- peripheral 144 -- primitive 134-5 -- reality of 128-32 -- resistance to 23 -- resistance to 27-8 -- resistance to 74 -- resistance to 103 -- Croatia 133 -- Czech Republic -- 16 -- 20 -- 21 -- 129-30 -- 132 -- 136 -- Czechoslovakia -- 126 -- 127 -- 128 -- Czurka, Istvan 52 -- d'Alema, Massimo 29 -- de Klerk, F.W. 44 -- democracy -- 42 -- Democracy 66 25 -- democracy -- 142 -- and peripheral capitalism 144 -- efficiency, and justice 32 -- efficiency, and justice 37 -- in crisis 1 -- in crisis 6 -- post-communist 136 -- Denmark -- 21 -- 24-5 -- Derrida, J. 63 -- downsizing 91.

East Asia, and industrial employment 90 -- East Germany -- 123-4 -- 128 -- Eastern Europe -- computer piracy 111 -- and investment 124-5 -- and investment 137 -- and liberalization of economy 129 -- and liberalization of economy 131 -- and liberalization of economy 137 -- and membership of NATO 122 -- and privatization 1 -- and privatization 137 -- as periphery of West 124-7 -- as periphery of West 131 -- as periphery of West 132 -- as periphery of West 136 -- debt dependency 124 -- debt dependency 126 -- democracy 132 -- democracy 141 -- dependence on West 123 -- dependence on West 124 -- dependence on West 130 -- dependence on West 131 -- dependence on West 134 -- education 128 -- education 129 -- entrepreneurship 137 -- entrepreneurship 138 -- entrepreneurship 139 -- entrepreneurship 140 -- entry into EU 122 -- entry into EU 142 -- health care 128 -- integration with West 10-11 -- integration with West 121-3 -- integration with West 136 -- integration with West 142 -- modernization 140-3 -- nationalism 133-4 -- nationalism 141 -- peripheral capitalism 137-40 -- protest movements 123 -- protest movements 138 -- recent history of 125-8 -- regional integration 141 -- regional integration 144 -- return to past 133-5 -- shadow economy 129 -- technological stratification 130 -- traditional structures 138 -- traditional structures 139 -- transition to capitalism 123 -- transition to capitalism 124-5 -- transition to capitalism 127-8 -- transition to capitalism 128-32 -- transition to capitalism 131 -- unemployment 128-9 -- Westernization 139 -- economy -- complexity of 98-9 -- and technology 83 -- international forces 146 -- education -- 3-4 -- 128 -- 129 -- Ekspert 105 -- El Salvador 22 -- election-rigging 15-16 -- employment -- 79-82 -- America 81-2 -- industrial 89-93 -- informal sector 98.

job security 92-3 -- part-time 83 -- redistributed 92 -- service sector 81 -- service sector 91 -- service sector 100 -- traditional sector 91-2 -- traditional sector 98-100 -- wages 82 -- end of work thesis -- 80 -- 82 -- Engels, F. 77 -- Estonia 133 -- ethnic conflicts 14 -- ethnic solidarity 142 -- Eurocommunist parties 34 -- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the countries of Southern Europe 43 -- European Union -- elections 25 -- and expansion 122 -- exploitation -- 66 -- 85 -- 93 -- 100 -- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 22 -- fascism -- 6 -- 76 -- Field, Norma 98-9 -- Financial Times 145 -- France -- 1-2 -- 21 -- 51 -- 113 -- Frankfurt School 77 -- free market -- 1 -- 2 -- 6 -- 66 -- free professions 94 -- freedom 32 -- Freeman, Alan 116 -- Frente Amplio 22 -- Frow, John 117-18 -- Fukuyama, Francis -- 3 -- 70 -- fundamentalism 75-6 -- Galkovsky, Dmitri 137 -- García, Marco Aurelio 22 -- Gates, Bill 115 -- General Motors 91 -- Germany -- censoring Internet 113 -- East and West 39 -- new Lander 124 -- new Lander 128 -- new Lander 136 -- Social Democrats 21 -- Social Democrats 56 -- welfare system 39 -- Giddens, Anthony -- 75 -- 76 -- 81 -- Glazyev, Sergey -- 129 -- 131 -- globalization, economic forces -- 48-9 -- 49 -- 54 -- 97 -- 146 -- Gorbachev Foundation 28-9 -- Gorbachev, Mikhail -- 139 -- 140 -- Gorz, André 79 -- Gramsci, A. -- Gramsci, A 47 -- Gramsci, A 65 -- Gramsci, A 72 -- Gramsci, A 102 -- Greece 42 -- Green Lefts [Groenlinks][Holland] 24 -- Growth, Employment and Redistribution policy [GEAR][South Africa] 47-8 -- Gushchin, Viktor 135 -- Gustavsen, Finn 24 -- Gysi, Gregor 39 -- Harasti, Miklos -- 52 -- 136 -- 137 -- Hard'n'Soft -- 117 -- 118 -- Head, Simon -- 82 -- 85 -- 95-6 -- health care -- 3-4 -- 6 -- 26 -- Hiatt, Fred 18 -- history -- end of 3 -- end of 7 -- end of 70.

and social progress 69-70.

A radical overview of the post-communist world which challenges the political neurosis of the left.

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