Beyond Post-Socialism Dialogues with the Far-Left [Hardcover]

The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoretical and utopian contribution of a number of far-Left socialist currents, including anarchism, situationism and post-Marxism and thinkers, such as Castoriadis, Wallerstein, and Badiou.Introduction 1. Post-Marxist Trajectories: Diagnosis, Criticism, Utopia 2. 'No, We Have Not Finished Reflecting on Communism': Castoriadis, Lefort, and Psychoanalytic Leninism 3. Forget Debord? 4. 'Many Flowers, Little Fruit'? The Dilemmas of Workerism 5. 'Communism & is the Affirmation of a New Community': Notes on Jacques Camatte 6. Anarchism as the Contemporary Spirit of Anti-Capitalism?: A Critical Survey of Recent Debates 7. Reflections on Wallerstein: The Modern World-System Four Decades on 8. Narrating Socialism  Four Voices 9. Concluding Comments BibliographyChamsy el-Ojeili is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of Politics, Social Theory, Utopia, and the World-System: Arguments in Political Sociology (2012); co-author (with Patrick Hayden) of Critical Theories of Globalization (2006); and co-editor (also with Patrick Hayden) of Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays (2009).