Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism, Socialist Register 2009
Edited by : Colin Leys, Leo Panitch
9788187496793
LeftWord Books 2009
Language: English
277 Pages
5.5 x 8.5 Inches
Price INR 350.0 Not Available
Edited by : Colin Leys, Leo Panitch
9788187496793
LeftWord Books 2009
Language: English
277 Pages
5.5 x 8.5 Inches
Price INR 350.0 Not Available
Violence in every possible form dominates current headlines and people’s fears. Understanding it has never been more urgently needed. This volume offers an insight into contemporary violence that the mainstream media – and even mainstream cinema – shrinks from providing on state violence, on violence in inner cities and prisons, and on the violence committed almost everywhere by men against women. In this book, consideration is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism, the legacies of habituation, insecurity and hatred, the dynamics of politically motivated violence and terror, and the conditions in which the superabundance of weapons exist.
This, the 45th volume of the Socialist Register, takes up a question that has preoccupied socialists for over a century–the likelihood that if capitalism is allowed to persist it will be characterised by increasing violence. When Rosa Luxemburg in 1916 quoted Engels’ famous statement that ‘Capitalist society faces a dilemma: either an advance to socialism, or a reversion to barbarism’, she asked: ‘What does a “reversion to barbarism” mean at the present stage of European civilisation? We have all read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without a notion of their terrible seriousness. At this moment, one glance around us will show what a reversion to barbarism in bourgeois society means. This World War–that is a reversion to barbarism’. Given the extent and extremity of violence today, even in the absence of world war, and two decades after the end of actually-existing socialism, it is hard not to feel that we are living in another age of barbarism.
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