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Anticapitalism : a beginner's guide / Simon Tormey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oneworld, 2004.Description: 192 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1851683429 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.122 22
Contents:
Introduction : 'beginning' anti-capitalism -- 1. The hows and whys of the thing called 'capitalism' -- A question of definition -- Capitalism as a system of competition -- Capitalism now -- Learning to love capitalism -- Neoliberalism and the end of the political -- 2. Why 'Seattle'? : 1968, the 'end of history' and the birth of contemporary anti-capitalism -- Problems of liberal-democracy -- 1968 and the 'crisis' of oppositional politics -- Paris '68 : unofficial politics and the new radicalism -- 1968, 'new social movements' and direct action -- From Berlin to Seattle : global anti-capitalism and the challenge to neoliberalism -- 3. A 'movement of movements' I : 'reformism' or 'globalisation with a human face' -- Analysing anti-capitalist ideas : beginnings -- 'Strong' and 'weak' (liberal) reformisms -- 'Strong(er)' reformism - or the return of social democracy -- 'We are the world' : towards global social democracy -- Could global social democracy work - for whom? -- 4. A 'movement of movements' II : renegades, radicals and revolutionaries -- Marxism after the 'fall of communism' -- Beyond 'bolshevism' : autonomism, council communism, and 'heterodox' radicalism -- Anarchism, or the art of not being 'in charge' -- Deep, deeper, deepest 'green' -- Ya Basta! : a brief excursus on Marcos and 'Zapatismo' -- 5. The future(s) of anti-capitalism : problems and perspectives -- From here to there : movement dynamics and collective action -- Beyond ideology : logics of resistance -- In search of the 'majority' -- Minoritarian logics - towards better world(s) -- Contemporary anti-capitalism : a timeline.
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Introduction : 'beginning' anti-capitalism -- 1. The hows and whys of the thing called 'capitalism' -- A question of definition -- Capitalism as a system of competition -- Capitalism now -- Learning to love capitalism -- Neoliberalism and the end of the political -- 2. Why 'Seattle'? : 1968, the 'end of history' and the birth of contemporary anti-capitalism -- Problems of liberal-democracy -- 1968 and the 'crisis' of oppositional politics -- Paris '68 : unofficial politics and the new radicalism -- 1968, 'new social movements' and direct action -- From Berlin to Seattle : global anti-capitalism and the challenge to neoliberalism -- 3. A 'movement of movements' I : 'reformism' or 'globalisation with a human face' -- Analysing anti-capitalist ideas : beginnings -- 'Strong' and 'weak' (liberal) reformisms -- 'Strong(er)' reformism - or the return of social democracy -- 'We are the world' : towards global social democracy -- Could global social democracy work - for whom? -- 4. A 'movement of movements' II : renegades, radicals and revolutionaries -- Marxism after the 'fall of communism' -- Beyond 'bolshevism' : autonomism, council communism, and 'heterodox' radicalism -- Anarchism, or the art of not being 'in charge' -- Deep, deeper, deepest 'green' -- Ya Basta! : a brief excursus on Marcos and 'Zapatismo' -- 5. The future(s) of anti-capitalism : problems and perspectives -- From here to there : movement dynamics and collective action -- Beyond ideology : logics of resistance -- In search of the 'majority' -- Minoritarian logics - towards better world(s) -- Contemporary anti-capitalism : a timeline.

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