Violence Today: Actually-Existing Barbarism - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1583671811 ISBN 13 : 9781583671818

Editeur : Monthly Review Press, 2008

Synopsis

Amidst the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg posed a stark choice for humanity: socialism or barbarism. Violence Today asks if current patterns mark a decent into the barbarism that Luxemburg feared and if a just society, one capable of transcending the endemic violence of the neoliberal order, is possible in the new century.
This powerful and provocative new collection explores the roots of violence -- military, terrorist, criminal, and casual -- in contemporary society. It analyzes the social context, history, and structure of modern violence, casting light on patterns and practices from America's inner cities and prisons to "failed states" like Afghanistan. Violence Today also gives special attention to debate within the Left about violence, including a controversial defense of armed struggle.
Contributors: John Berger, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, Peter Thomas, Vivek Chibber, Christian Parenti, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Georgi Derluguian, Sofiri Joab-Peterside, Ulrich Oslender, Achin Vanaik, Barabara Harriss-White, Lynne Segal, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs, Dennis Rodgers, Avishai Erlich, Philip Green, Garance Upham, Mary des Chenes and Stephen Mikesell, Samir Amin.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University in Toronto and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination.

Colin Leys is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monthly Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583671811
• ISBN 13: 9781583671818
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Panitch All Professors In Political Science Leo, Leys Colin
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