Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa
Editat de Robert J. Balfouren Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 2024
The subjects in this book deal with a wide range of topics, including the new social, economic and political challenges facing democratic South Africa; the need to reexamine the critique of capitalism in the 21st century; the relationship between race, class and community struggles; and the ecological challenges under capitalism.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032861081
ISBN-10: 1032861088
Pagini: 407
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032861088
Pagini: 407
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General and PostgraduateCuprins
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Mzala Nxumalo’s ideas in post-apartheid South Africa
PART 1: MZALA AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION
1. Radical Left Thought Revival: Mzala’s Views and Their Applicability in Contemporary South Africa
2. The National Question and Exile: Remembering Mzala in London
3. Socialism is the Future: Comrade Mzala’s Thoughts on the National Question
4. The First and Second Transitions and the National Question in South Africa
5. The EFF’s Perspective on ‘What is the Future of the Left in South Africa in a Global Context?’
6. The Dilemma of the Post-1994 Democratic Breakthrough: A Broad Survey of Community Struggles in South Africa
PART 2: COMMUNITY, STATE AND GLOBE: ISSUES, STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF WORK
7. The Challenges of Economic and Social Development in South Africa: Left Perspectives
8. Global Economic Imperialism and the Politics of (Under) Development: Street Traders, Domestic Workers and Sex Workers
9. Social and Economic Challenges from a Left Perspective
10. After Revisionist Marxism: Reanimating the Critique of Capitalism in South Africa
11. Emerging Powers and the Polycentric World
12. Ecocide or Socialism: Ecological Challenges and Neoliberal Capitalist Constrains on Radical Transformation
Conclusion: The Future of Leftist Thought in a New Century
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Mzala Nxumalo’s ideas in post-apartheid South Africa
PART 1: MZALA AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION
1. Radical Left Thought Revival: Mzala’s Views and Their Applicability in Contemporary South Africa
2. The National Question and Exile: Remembering Mzala in London
3. Socialism is the Future: Comrade Mzala’s Thoughts on the National Question
4. The First and Second Transitions and the National Question in South Africa
5. The EFF’s Perspective on ‘What is the Future of the Left in South Africa in a Global Context?’
6. The Dilemma of the Post-1994 Democratic Breakthrough: A Broad Survey of Community Struggles in South Africa
PART 2: COMMUNITY, STATE AND GLOBE: ISSUES, STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF WORK
7. The Challenges of Economic and Social Development in South Africa: Left Perspectives
8. Global Economic Imperialism and the Politics of (Under) Development: Street Traders, Domestic Workers and Sex Workers
9. Social and Economic Challenges from a Left Perspective
10. After Revisionist Marxism: Reanimating the Critique of Capitalism in South Africa
11. Emerging Powers and the Polycentric World
12. Ecocide or Socialism: Ecological Challenges and Neoliberal Capitalist Constrains on Radical Transformation
Conclusion: The Future of Leftist Thought in a New Century
About the Contributors
Index
Notă biografică
Robert J. Balfour is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at North-West University, South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation-rated academic and has published frequently on language learning and literacy, rural education and postcolonial literature.
Recenzii
‘In a dispiriting present, these wide-ranging essays reinvigorate left analysis, with many drawing on the work of the communist intellectual and militant Mzala Nxumalo. This reaching back to engage the present means that this volume is an important contribution to sustaining a national left intellectual tradition, aproject in dialogue with the best ideas from around the world. Mzala, as he was and remains known, was committed to a nonsectarian approach to building a left project and these essays will be useful to people across the South African left, and elsewhere.’
— Scholar, journalist, editor, teacher and activist; author of Writing the Decline: on the Struggle for South Africa’s Democracy (2016) and editor of Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Richard Pithouse
— Scholar, journalist, editor, teacher and activist; author of Writing the Decline: on the Struggle for South Africa’s Democracy (2016) and editor of Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Richard Pithouse
Descriere
This book discusses the significance of Mzala Nxumalo's work in contemporary South African left politics. It covers wide range of topics, including the new challenges facing democratic South Africa, the need to reexamine capitalism, and the history and struggle of the apartheid era.