Leo Panitch Bücher

„Die klassischen Imperialismustheorien (von Hobson bis Lenin) gründeten auf einer Theoretisierung ökonomischer Entwicklungsstufen und Krisen der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise. Dies war ein fundamentaler Fehler, der seither ein richtiges Verständnis behindert hat.“ Panitch und Gindin kritisieren „das reduktionistische und instrumentalistische Staatsverständnis“ dieser Theorien. „Der Imperialismus lässt sich nicht auf eine ökonomische Erklärung reduzieren, selbst wenn ökonomische Krisen stets einen großen Raum einnehmen. Das Verständnis des kapitalistischen Imperialismus erfordert die Einbeziehung einer Theorie des kapitalistischen Staates, statt einer direkten Ableitung von der Theorie der ökonomischen Stufen oder Krisen.“ Als Hauptzüge des modernen US-Imperialismus beschreiben die Autoren dessen Streben nach der indirekten Herrschaft durch verbündete Staaten, das die Errichtung eines „informellen“ Imperialismus mit dem Ziel der amerikanischen Rekonstruktion einer kapitalistischen Weltordnung unter neoliberalen Vorzeichen vorsieht.

A groundbreaking account of America's role in global capitalism.

A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn.

This book addresses the challenges facing socialists and the recent shift from protest to politics. It examines the limits and possibilities for class, party and state transformation and the democratic and socialist insurgencies inside the Labour Party in Britain, and the Democratic Party in the USA.

The Yearbook of the Independent International Left addresses fundamental questions of a new era marked by Trump's election and the rise of right-wing populism. It explores whether neoliberal globalization will decline or deepen, affecting labor mobility and shifting power to certain regions of the Global South, potentially reversing the current world order. Contributions from various authors are included.

This book features contributions from a diverse group of authors, including Greg Albo, Gautam Mody, Joel Beinin, and many others, exploring various perspectives and topics.

The 50th edition of Socialist Register focuses on class relations in the context of global capitalist social relations. Contributors analyze the reorganization of capitalist classes and the structure of the working classes in the 21st century, featuring authors like Leo Panitch, Madeleine Davis, and Vivek Chibber, among others.

As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming, indeed ways of living. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses by states around the world, but also grotesque class and racial inequalities as it coursed its way through the population and the owners of high-tech corporations were enriched by tens of billions of dollars. Rejecting both technological determinism and facile ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking, the 57th annual volume of the Socialist Register addresses how to imagine, struggle for, and plan for, new democratic socialist ways of living after the pandemic.