Capitalism’s Crises : Class struggles in South Africa and the world / / editor, Vishwas Satgar.

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 sam...

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Place / Publishing House:Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Democratic Marxism ; Volume 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Vishwas Satgar-- Contemporary understandings of capitalism's crises and class struggle-- From marx to the systemic crises of capitalist civilisation, Vishwas Satgar-- Activist understandings of the crisis of 2008, William K. Carroll-- Capitalist crisis and left responses in the global north-- Occupy and the dialectics of the left in the United States, Leah-Hunt Hendrix and Isham Christie-- Austerity and resistance: The politics of labour in the Eurozone crisis, Andreas Bieler and Jamie Jordan-- Beyond social democratic and communist parties: Left political organisation in transition in western, Europe Hilary Wainwright-- Capitalist crisis and left responses in the global south-- Brazil: From neoliberal democracy to the end of the 'Lula Moment', Alfredo Saad Filho-- The global financial crisis and 'resilience': The case of India, Sumangala Damodaran-- Real wage trends and the labour crisis in South Africa, Niall Reddy-- Seize power! The role of the constitution in unifying social justice struggles in South Africa, Mark Heywood.