Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Balfour, Robert J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written as a tribute to the revolutionary intellectual and leader Mzala Nxumalo, this book discusses the significance of his work in the context of contemporary South African left politics. It explores the history and struggle of the apartheid era that preceded the advent of democracy to analyze a crucial aspect of the national question - that is, the quest for the establishment of a united South Africa to overcome racist and sexist policies that create and nurture divisions among black people.

The subjects in this book deal with a wide range of topics, including the new social, economic and political challenges facing democratic South Africa; the need to reexamine the critique of capitalism in the 21st century; the relationship between race, class and community struggles; and the ecological challenges under capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 407
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040135099
• Artikelnr.: 70759360

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Balfour is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at North-West University, South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation-rated academic and has published frequently on language learning and literacy, rural education and postcolonial literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Mzala Nxumalo's ideas in post-apartheid South Africa
PART 1: MZALA AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION
1. Radical Left Thought Revival: Mzala's Views and Their Applicability in
Contemporary South Africa
2. The National Question and Exile: Remembering Mzala in London
3. Socialism is the Future: Comrade Mzala's Thoughts on the National
Question
4. The First and Second Transitions and the National Question in South
Africa
5. The EFF's Perspective on 'What is the Future of the Left in South Africa
in a Global Context?'
6. The Dilemma of the Post-1994 Democratic Breakthrough: A Broad Survey of
Community Struggles in South Africa
PART 2: COMMUNITY, STATE AND GLOBE: ISSUES, STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF
WORK
7. The Challenges of Economic and Social Development in South Africa: Left
Perspectives
8. Global Economic Imperialism and the Politics of (Under) Development:
Street Traders, Domestic Workers and Sex Workers
9. Social and Economic Challenges from a Left Perspective
10. After Revisionist Marxism: Reanimating the Critique of Capitalism in
South Africa
11. Emerging Powers and the Polycentric World
12. Ecocide or Socialism: Ecological Challenges and Neoliberal Capitalist
Constrains on Radical Transformation
Conclusion: The Future of Leftist Thought in a New Century
About the Contributors
Index