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The Left Strikes Back: Class And Conflict In The Age Of Neoliberalism
Author(s): James Petras (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Dec. 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0813338921
- ISBN-13: 9780813338927
Book Description
James Petras shows that the current stage of capital globalization and the weakening of the ability of established popular groups to defend themselves have generated an important organized response on the part of those whose standard of living is most undermined and threatened by the process. The book argues convincingly that we can now see the emerging forms of resistance in new, popular organizations that, while frequently local and provincial, nevertheless have developed an international consciousness. By discussing their spatial-economic focus, social base, style of political action, and political perspective, The Left Strikes Back both identifies and differentiates the different waves of the left. Further, it presents data documenting the growth, contradictions, and political challenges that confront these burgeoning socio-political movements.
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About the Author
James Petras is professor of sociology at SUNY-Binghamton. He is the coauthor of Democracy and Poverty in Chile: The Limits to Electoral Politics (Westview, 1994).
