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How to Be an Anti-Capitalist for the 21St Century
How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21st Century Erik Olin Wright July, 2018 To my three grandchildren, Safira, Vernon, and Ida Table of Contents Preface i Chapter 1. Why be anti-capitalist? 1 What is capitalism? Grounds for opposing capitalism Normative foundations Equality/fairness Democracy/freedom Community/Solidarity Chapter 2. Diagnosis and Critique of capitalism 10 Equality and fairness Class and exploitation Competition and risk Disruptive economic growth Democracy and Freedom Community and Solidarity Skepticism Chapter 3. Varieties of Anti-capitalism 17 Strategic Logics Smashing capitalism Taming capitalism Resisting capitalism Escaping capitalism Strategic Configurations Eroding capitalism From Strategy to Transformation Chapter 4. The destination beyond capitalism: socialism as economic democracy 31 A power-centered concept of socialism Building blocks of a democratic socialist economy Unconditional basic income The cooperative market economy The social and solidarity economy Democratizing capitalist firms Banking as a public utility Nonmarket economic organization Back to the problem of strategy Chapter 5. Anti-capitalism and the state 45 The problem of the capitalist state Internal contradictions of the state Contradictory, contested functionality Prospects Democratizing the State Democratically empowered decentralization New forms of citizen participation New institutions for democratic representation Democratizing electoral rules-of-the-game Chapter 6. Agents of transformation 56 Collective actors for eroding capitalism The problem of collective agency The concept of “agency” Identities Interests Values From Identities, Interests and Values to collective Actors Overcoming privatized lives Fragmented Class Structures Competing sources of identity Real Politics Preface This book was originally conceived as a streamlined distillation of the central arguments of Envisioning Real Utopias, published in 2010. -
The Quality of Democracies in Latin America
The Quality of Democracies in Latin America The Quality of Democracies in Latin America The Quality of Democracies in Latin America Lead writer Leonardo Morlino Contributors Juan Rial Manuel Alcántara Sáez Massimo Tommasoli Daniel Zovatto © 2016 International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance International IDEA Strömsborg SE-103 34, STOCKHOLM SWEDEN Tel: +46 8 698 37 00, fax: +46 8 20 24 22 Email: [email protected], website: www.idea.int First published in Spanish as La calidad de las democracias en América Latina: Informe para IDEA Internacional (Stockholm and San José: International IDEA, 2013). A second, revised Spanish edition was published in 2014. The electronic version of this publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 licence. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the publication as well as to remix and adapt it provided it is only for non-commercial purposes, that you appropriately attribute the publication and that you distribute it under an identical licence. For more information on this licence see: <http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>. International IDEA publications are independent of specific national or political interests. Views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of International IDEA, its Board or its Council members. Translator: Charles Roberts Cover design: Turbo Design Layout and typesetting: Turbo Design Printed by: AGS Custom Graphics, An RR Donnelley Company ISBN: 978-91-7671-050-0 Contents List of -
SUMMARY RECORDS of the PROCEEDINGS of the 126Th IPU ASSEMBLY Kampala (Uganda) 28 March-5 April 2012
SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 126th IPU ASSEMBLY Kampala (Uganda) 28 March-5 April 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) Introduction ......................................................................................................... 4 Inaugural ceremony • Speech by Ms. Rebecca Kadaga, Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda ..................... 5 • Speech by Mr. Zachary Muburi-Muita, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union ..................................... 5 • Speech by Mr. Abdelwahad Radi, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ............ 6 • Speech by H.E. Yoweri Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda .................... 8 Organization of the work of the Assembly • Election of the President and the Vice-Presidents of the 126th Assembly..................... 11 • Consideration of possible requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the Assembly Agenda ......................................................................................... 26 • Final Assembly Agenda .......................................................................................... 28 General debate on the overall theme of Parliaments and people: Bridging the gap ..................................................................................................... 11-65 Special addresses • Open debate with Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Mr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population -
The Latin American Challenge
THE LATIN AMERICAN CHALLENGE - SOCIAL COHESION AND DEMOCRACY - Bernardo Sorj Danilo Martuccelli 1 This book was written as a contribution to the New Agenda for Social Cohesion in Latin America project of the iFHC - Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso and CIEPLAN - Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica. The European Union and the UNDP provided support for the project. The information and opinions expressed herein are exclusively those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the institutions associated with the project or entail any commitment on their part. Project coordinators: Bernardo Sorj and Eugenio Tironi. Executive Team: Eduardo Valenzuela, Patricio Meller, Sergio Fausto and Simon Schwartzman. Translation from Spanish: Gretta K. Siebentritt © Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso – iFHC 2 CONTENTS Introduction: Social Cohesion and Democracy: between voice and exit (05) Chapter I. Transformations of the Social Bond 1. Introduction (23) 2. Religion and religiosity (27) The universe of religious affiliations Religion and state Religion and politics Religion, democracy and social cohesion 3. Interethnic relations and democratization (37) From societal dynamics to individual aspirations Social inequality, social bond and the ethnic question in the Andean world 4. Urban spaces and dynamics (42) The city as a setting for modernization and cultural fragmentation The city and social exclusion Urban space and virtual communication channels The city, reticence and social cohesion 5. The media, cultural industry and social cohesion (55) A new ligature of social cohesion? Youth identities and cohesion in the age of the media 6. Emigration (67) Emigration: a few figures Migratory flows of individuals, networks and cultures Emigration and social cohesion The political challenges of migration flows 7. -
Solidarity As a Public Virtue?
Transnational Perspectives on Transformations in State and Society l 4 Veronica Federico | Christian Lahusen [eds.] Solidarity as a Public Virtue? Law and Public Policies in the European Union https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845290058, am 24.05.2018, 08:49:46 Open Access - https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845290058, am 24.05.2018, 08:49:46 Open Access - https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Lahusen_4739-9.indd 1 03.05.18 13:26 Transnational Perspectives on Transformations in State and Society Transformation von Staat und Gesellschaft in transnationalen Räumen edited by Prof. Dr. Robert Kaiser, University of Siegen herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen, University of Siegen Prof. Dr. Andrea Schneiker, University of Siegen Prof. Dr. Robert Kaiser, Universität Siegen Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen, Universität Siegen Prof. Dr. Andrea Schneiker, Universität Siegen Volume 4 Band 1 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845290058, am 24.05.2018, 08:49:46 Open Access - https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Lahusen_4739-9.indd 2 03.05.18 13:26 Veronica Federico | Christian Lahusen [eds.] Solidarity as a Public Virtue? Law and Public Policies in the European Union https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845290058, am 24.05.2018, 08:49:46 Open Access - https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Lahusen_4739-9.indd 3 03.05.18 13:26 The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de ISBN 978-3-8487-4739-9 (Print) 978-3-8452-9005-8 (ePDF) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.