Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa

Buch | Hardcover

389 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-86108-1 (ISBN)

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This book discusses the significance of Mzala Nxumalo's work in contemporary South African left politics. It covers wide range of topics, including the new challenges facing democratic South Africa, the need to reexamine capitalism, and the history and struggle of the apartheid era.

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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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.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	911 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-86108-8 / 1032861088
ISBN-13	978-1-032-86108-1 / 9781032861081
Zustand	Neuware