New realism, new barbarism : socialist theory in the era of globalization / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The New Barbarism -- The Decade of Frustration -- The End of Alternatives? -- 'Modest' Socialism -- The Arrogant 'Civilization' -- The Barbarians at the Gates -- Building the Pyramids -- 1 The Left As it Is -- Electoral Successes, Political Failures -- The Neurosis of the Left -- 'Socialist Values' -- Reforms After the Revolution -- The New Realism -- The Dialectic of Reform -- Lessons from Eastern Europe -- The Case of South Africa -- The Rise of the Militant Right -- The Elitist Left

What About the Workers? Returning to Struggle -- 2 De-Revising Marx -- What is Revisionism? -- The Time of Reaction -- Escaping from Utopia -- Reclaiming the Tradition -- 3 The Return of the Proletariat -- Post- industrial Mirage -- Technological Aristocracy -- The Crocodile Phenomenon -- Proletarianization -- Informal Work and Traditional Sector -- 4 New Technologies, New Struggles -- Pirates! -- Geopolitics of Knowledge -- The Struggles in Cyberspace -- 5 The New Periphery -- From Hope to Frustration -- Transition and History

Capitalist Reality Nationalism: Myth of the Golden Age -- Non- capitalist Capitalism -- From 'Resisting the Change' to Changing the System -- No Way 'Back to the USSR' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Left As it Is -- 2 De- Revising Marx -- 3 The Return of the Proletariat -- 4 New Technologies, New Struggles -- 5 The New Periphery -- Conclusion -- Index -- African National Congress -- 22 -- 44-6 -- 49 -- 50 -- agriculture, role of 93 -- Albania -- 14-18 -- 19 -- 132

138Aleman, Arnoldo 27 -- apartheid, abolition of 49 -- Arab-Israeli war 126 -- authors' rights -- 109 -- 112 -- 113 -- Bahrain 113 -- Balbastre, Gilles 81 -- Ballaev, Andrey 30-1 -- barbarians 7-14 -- Barenboim, David 108 -- Barlow, John Perry 116-17 -- Belarus -- 130 -- 133 -- Bell, D. 92 -- Berisha, Sali 15-16 -- Berlin Wall -- 5 -- 13 -- 20 -- Bernstein, Eduard -- 29 -- 65 -- 66 -- black market 129 -- Blair, Tony -- 38 -- 42 -- 56 -- 61 -- Block, Fred -- 68-9

84 88 -- Bobbio, Norberto 29 -- Bolsheviks 71 -- Borocz, Josef 125 -- bourgeoisification -- 97 -- 127 -- 137 -- Brazil 18 -- Brazilian Workers' Party -- 22 -- 41 -- Brezhnev, Leonid -- 126 -- 127 -- Brie, André and Michel -- 77 -- 79 -- Bulgaria -- 43 -- 111 -- Burbach, Roger 70 -- Business Software Alliance 104 -- Buzdugan, Yury 130-1 -- Buzgalin, Aleksandr -- 58 -- 107 -- Camdessus, Michel 14-15 -- capitalism -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -- 9-10 -- 34

In this radical and controversial overview of the post-communist world, Boris Kagarlitsky argues that the very success of neo-liberal capitalism has made traditional socialism all the more necessary and feasible. Kagarlitsky argues that leftists exaggerate the importance of the 'objective' aspects of the 'new reality' - globalisation - and the weakening of the state, while underestimating the importance of the hegemony of neo-liberalism. As long as neo-liberalism retains its ideological hegemony, despite its economic failure, the consequence is a 'new barbarism' - already a reality in Eastern Europe, and now also emerging in the West. Kagarlitsky challenges the political neurosis of the left and prevailing assumptions of Marxism to argue that Marx's theories are now more timely than they were in the mid-twentieth century. He analyses theories of the 'end of the proletariat' and the 'end of work', and assesses the potential of the new technologies - such as the Internet - which create fresh challenges for capitalism and new arenas for struggle.

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