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Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic, Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the 'death of socialism'. Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of globalization, terrorism, and a crisis of public confidence in government.
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Stanley Aronowitz is Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author most recently of The Knowledge Factory (Beacon 2000) and How Class Works (Yale University Press 2003). The Green Party candidate for New York governor in 2002, he has also been a contributor to The Nation, The Village Voice, and New Politics.
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creating a new political formation
21 Feb 2008
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In a breathtaking Historical reconstruction of where the U.S. left has been and is now, Stanley Aronowitz provocatively and concretely proposes a new political formation that can confront the monolithic electoral party system and its array of special interests and takes to task the reformist tendencies of postmodern politics which usually manifest as single issue actions. The labor unions are also critiqued as becoming "sweethearts" to business, We are invited to rethink the totality of involvements from the notion of everyday praxis, historical agency, historical bloc in fresh radical terms and to consider real alternatives to market capitalism , first by rethinking our relationship to nature and to labor. Aronowitz has managed to uniquely synthesize the best of Lenin's, Luxemburg's,Pannekoek's,and Gramsci's thinking about political organization and has provided the left with a new starting point both for discussion and action. In a concluding chapter , Aronowitz critically engages three new utopian proposals and gives a harsh indictment of the Rawlsian political liberalism that dominates the landscape of contemporary political theory.
This book, in my view, is a must read for anyone interested in political theory, practical philosophy, radical praxis today, and the organizational problems facing the left today. Controversial, yet creatively provocative this work will stimulate much debate among those wanting substantive transformation in our political future.
Michael Pelias,
Philosophy, LIU-Brooklyn
Situations:Project of
the Radical Imagination,
co-managing editor
This book, in my view, is a must read for anyone interested in political theory, practical philosophy, radical praxis today, and the organizational problems facing the left today. Controversial, yet creatively provocative this work will stimulate much debate among those wanting substantive transformation in our political future.
Michael Pelias,
Philosophy, LIU-Brooklyn
Situations:Project of
the Radical Imagination,
co-managing editor
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