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Digital Capitalism And Its Limits - Technotopia, Power And Risk

by Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo, Constantine N Nana, Edward Webster, Jane Duncan, Mayssam Daaboul, Michael Kwet, Michel Bauwens, Rok Kranjc, Ruth Castel-Branco, Seipati Mokhema, Ujala Satgoor e Vincent Siwawa

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 The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been described as the next big leap in digital capitalism. Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 3D printing and robotisation, we are led to believe, will bring more progress, growth and development while also helping us to resolve the deep and multiple crises the world is in. Billions are being invested in these technologies, accompanied by sharp geopolitical rivalries to secure an edge in the control over them. Volume 8 in the Democratic Marxism series invites readers to think more deeply and critically about digital capitalism and its limits. While most governments in the world, including South Africa, have accepted a techno-nationalist narrative and have deliberated on the risks for the planet and humanity, the volume interrogates the effects and consequences of advances in artificial intelligence and heightened technological innovation and industrialisation on employment, democracy and the climate. Viewing the grand social engineering of 4IR through a Marxist lens, the volume contributors engage critically with the class project of digital monopoly capitalism and its powerful totalitarian tendencies. They question the dangerous technotopian imaginary shaping this digital techno-shift, the implications of algorithmic data extractivism, the securitisation of already weak market democracies, the social consequences of digital learning, lack of regulation, and the power dynamics in the labour process. Anchored in techno-realism, the interdisciplinary perspective captured in this volume puts forward alternatives for democratisation and a just transition to protect human and non-human life.
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Emancipatory Feminism In The Time Of Covid-19 - Transformative Resistance And Social Reproduction

by Asanda-Jonas Benya, Busi Sibeko, Christine Bischoff, Courtney Morgan, Dineo Skosana, Hawzhin Azeez, Inge Konik, Jacklyn Cock, Jane Cherry, Jane Mbithi-Dikgol, Samantha Hargreaves e Sonia Phalatse

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 The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women - in particular working-class women - to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women - working class, peasant and indigenous - responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system. Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava - the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, championing climate justice in mining-affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women’s grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
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Emancipatory Feminism In The Time Of Covid-19 - Transformative Resistance And Social Reproduction

by Asanda-Jonas Benya, Busi Sibeko, Christine Bischoff, Courtney Morgan, Dineo Skosana, Hawzhin Azeez, Inge Konik, Jacklyn Cock, Jane Cherry, Jane Mbithi-Dikgol, Samantha Hargreaves e Sonia Phalatse

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 The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women - in particular working-class women - to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women - working class, peasant and indigenous - responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system. Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava - the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, championing climate justice in mining-affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women’s grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
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Destroying Democracy - Neoliberal Capitalism And The Rise Of Authoritarian Politics

by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Dale T Mckinley, Devan Pillay, Gunnett Kaaf, Ingar Solty, Jane Duncan, Linda Gordon e Mandla J Radebe

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 Democracy is being destroyed. This is a crisis that expresses itself in the rising authoritarianism visible in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified, with corporations becoming more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked, is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. Volume six of the Democratic Marxism series focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ground. Scholars and activists from the political left focus on four country cases - India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America - in which the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled and highlighted the pre-existing crisis. They interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. Destroying Democracy is an invaluable resource for the general public, activists, scholars and students who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.
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Brics And The New American Imperialism - Global Rivalry And Resistance

by Alexander Gallas, Ana Garcia, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Ferrial Adam, Karina Kato, Keamogetswe Seipato, Nivedita Majumdar, Patrick Bond, Samir Amin e William K Carroll

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 BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.
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Racism After Apartheid - Challenges For Marxism And Anti-Racism

by Aditya Nigam, Fabian Georgi, Firoze Manji, Khwezi Mabasa, Nivedita Menon, Peter Hudson, Ran Greenstein, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz e Sharon Ekambaram

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 Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.
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Climate Crisis, The - South African And Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

by Alberto Acosta, Andrew Bennie, Athish Satgoor, Brian Ashley, Christelle Terreblanche, David Fig, Desné Masie, Devan Pillay, Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Hein Marais, Jacklyn Cock, Mateo Martínez Abarca, Michelle Williams, Nnimmo Bassey, Pablo Sólon e Patrick Bond

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 Capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging.
Marxisms In The 21st Century - Crisis, Critique And Struggle

by Ahmed Veriava, Ashwin Desai, Daryl Glaser, Devan Pillay, Jacklyn Cock, John Saul, Mazibuko Jara, Meg Luxton, Michael Burawoy, Michelle Williams, Patrick Bond e Trevor Ngwane

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 Although Marx's writings on social transformation figured prominently in the global Left imagination for more than 150 years, by the late twentieth century the relevance of Marxism was under question by both the Left (including Marxists) and Right.
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Capitalism'S Crises - Class Struggles In South Africa And The World

by Alfredo Saad-Filho, Andreas Bieler, Hilary Wainwright, Isham Christie, Jamie Jordan, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Mark Heywood, Niall Reddy, Sumsngala Damodaran e William K. Carroll

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 The global economic crisis is far from over and has been considered the worst in the history of modern capitalism.

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