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Book SynopsisTransform 2018 discusses contemporary and other issues facing the Left: What are the Left's key issues? How to make Governance accountable and democratic? What has changed in recent elections? BREXIT? Lessons from history? Dialogue between Marxists and Christians? Contributors come from across Europe and beyond.
Table of ContentsPreface Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Eva Himmelstoss: Integration - Disintegration - Nationalism Europe, the World, and the Left Gregor Gysi: Europe - Its Fault Lines and Future Samir Amin - interviewed by Walter Baier Jan Kavan: Europe at the Crossroads Veronika Susová-Salminen: From Universalism to Diversity - How to Live in the Post-Western World of Hybrids Confronting `Governance’ and Exit - Whither the European Union? Leonardo Paggi: Maastricht as a `Civilisation’ - Historical Fragments of an Oligarchical Culture Ilona Svihlíková: 150 Years After Capital - The EU’s Economic Reforms Joachim Bischoff: Endless Recovery? Marisa Matias and José Gusmão: The European Union - History, Tragedy, and Farce Axel Troost: Left Alternatives for Fostering Solidarity in Europe Marica Frangakis: The Multiple Aspects of EU Exit and the Future of the Union John Grahl: Brexit - Towards the Precipice Erhard Crome: The EU, NATO, and the OSCE Right and Left Populism, Elections and Security Policy Walter Baier: Between Two Crises? - The 2017 Austrian Elections from a European Perspective Yann Le Lann and Antoine de Cabanes: France Insoumise versus the Front National - The Differences Between Far-Right and Left-wing Populism Friedrich Burschel: Right-wing Shift in Quick Time Rafa Pankowski: The Internationalisation of Nationalism and the Mainstreaming of Hate - Remarks on the Rise of the Far Right in Poland Dirk Burczyk: Left Security Policy - Navigating Between the Pathos of Civil Rights and the Life Realities of Voters The Battle Over Historical Memory: Anti-fascism and the New Totalitarianism Discourse Haris Golemis: Rejecting Historical Revisionism in Practice - Greece’s Minister of Justice Boycotts the Tallinn Conference on the Victims of Communism. An Exchange of Letters Between the Greek and Estonian Ministers of Justice Leonardo Paggi: Memory as an Apparatus Thilo Janssen: The Dangerous Conservative Totalitarianism Discourse in the EU Two Anniversaries: 150 Years of Marx’s Capital - 100 Years after the Hungarian Soviet Republic Lutz Brangsch, Radhika Desai, Ingo Schmidt, Claude Serfati, and Patrick Bond: Marx, Hilferding and Finance Capital - A Roundtable on the Continued Relevance of an Old Book Lajos Csoma: The Hungarian Soviet Republic - Revolutionary Movements in Hungary in 1918-1919 The Christian-Marxist Dialogue Walter Baier: Dialogue of Critical Minorities Luciana Castellina: Pope Francis and the Opening of a Christian-Marxist Dialogue Michael Löwy: The Left and Christian Non-violent Consensus Piero Coda: For a Non-violent Style of Thinking Authors and Editors Members and Observers of transform! europe
