Description
Book SynopsisIn The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism. He underlines the urgency of seeing the emergence of a global and united left that can pave the way out of the centuries-old domination of capital, considering antisystemic movements, dilemmas of the left in relation to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, and tactics and strategies for political action. The book includes new essays by Étienne Balibar, James K. Galbraith, Johan Galtung, Nilüfer Göle, Pablo González Casanova, and Michel Wieviorka in conversation with Wallerstein's core ideas.
Table of ContentsForeword
Part I: The Global Left: Past, Present, and Future
1. Capitalism and Antisystemic Movements: 1789–1968
2. Structural Crisis of the Modern World-System: Dilemmas of the Left
3. Bifurcation and Collective Choice: Tactics of the Transition
Part II: Appreciations/Critiques
4. Bifurcation in the "End" of Capitalism
5. The Left: Its Immediate Future
6. The Global Left: A Comment
7. Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right
8. The Global and the Left: Possible Encounters?
9. The Hypothesis of Decline
10. Response to Appreciations/Critiques
