What is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century?One hundred years ago 'October 1917' was a unique event inspiring socialists and oppressed peoples and became an inevitable point of reference for 20th century politics. Today the left needs both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it, through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects - positive and negative - on political, intellectual and cultural life, considering also new revolutions after 1917. The main point of the volume is to look forward. Nowadays, when reform as it was understood in the 20th century appears to be as impossible as revolution, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises and both revolution and reform. Change needs to be understood in relation to the distinct trajectories of radical politics in different regions. Contributors will consider, interrogate and explore many issues:* Alternatives to neoliberal capitalism: Socialist strategies - or detours? * The immense ecological challenge to revolutionary political strategy.* Reframing revolution amidst accelerated technological change.* What is the salience today of the concept of the revolutionary party?*
Questioning agency - of the working class and other oppressed groups. * Socialist feminist perspectives on the meaning of revolution today. * Revolutionary vision, including its artistic expression in the 21st century.
What is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century?One hundred years ago 'October 1917' was a unique event inspiring socialists and oppressed peoples and became an inevitable point of reference for 20th century politics. Today the left needs both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it, through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects - positive and negative - on political, intellectual and cultural life, considering also new revolutions after 1917. The main point of the volume is to look forward. Nowadays, when reform as it was understood in the 20th century appears to be as impossible as revolution, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises and both revolution and reform. Change needs to be understood in relation to the distinct trajectories of radical politics in different regions. Contributors will consider, interrogate and explore many issues:* Alternatives to neoliberal capitalism: Socialist strategies - or detours? * The immense ecological challenge to revolutionary political strategy.* Reframing revolution amidst accelerated technological change.* What is the salience today of the concept of the revolutionary party?*
Questioning agency - of the working class and other oppressed groups. * Socialist feminist perspectives on the meaning of revolution today. * Revolutionary vision, including its artistic expression in the 21st century.
Greg Albo: New socialist strategies - or detours? Jodi Dean: Are the multitudes communing? Revolutionary agency and political forms today; Adolph Reed: Are racial minorities revolutionary agents?; Zillah Eisenstein: Revolutionary feminisms today; Nina Power: Accelerated technology, decelerated revolution; David Schwartzman: Beyond global warming: Is solar communism possible?; Andrea Malm: Revolution and counter-revolution in an era of climate change; Patrick Bond: Ecosocialist strategy for a new workers' party in South Africa; Fabien Escolona: Eurocommunism and today's new parties of the radical left; Michalis Spourdalakis: Assessing Syriza in power; Robert Cavooris: Interrogating 21st century revolution in Latin America: the Bolivian case; Steve Striffler: The revolution disarmed? Cuba and Venezuela; August Nimtz: Marx and Engels on revolutionary power: An updated distillation; Anthony Zurbrugg: Leninism's fault lines: Looking back to 1917; Wang Hui: China's revolutionary legacy; Frigga Haug: The Marxist-feminist meaning of revolution; Costas Eleftheriou: The revolutionary party as an 'essentially contested concept' in social theory; Richard Fidler: Dual power yesterday and today; Pierre Beaudet: Rethinking revolution, Rethinking democracy; Bryan Palmer & Joan Sangster: The distinctive heritage of 1917: A critical appraisal; Walter Ben Michaels: Art and revolution today; Slavo Zizek: Addressing the impossible: More alienation, please! Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin: The meaning of revolution in the 21st century.
Leo Panitch and Greg Albo are Professors in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.
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