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Rethinking Samir Amin’s legacy and the case for a political organization of the global justice movement (2021)


Juego, B. (2021). Rethinking Samir Amin’s legacy and the case for a political organization of the global justice movement. In B. K. G. Gills, & C. Chase-Dunn (Eds.), Unity on the Global Left : Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092483-19


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All authors or editorsJuego, Bonn

Parent publicationUnity on the Global Left : Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

Parent publication editorsGills, Barry K. Gills; Chase-Dunn, Christopher

ISBN978-0-367-55222-0

eISBN978-1-003-09248-3

Publication year2021

Number of pages in the book180

PublisherRoutledge

Place of PublicationAbingdon, Oxon

Publication countryUnited Kingdom

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092483-19

Publication open accessOther way freely accessible online

Publication channel open access

Web address where publication is availablehttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67232

Additional informationThis book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Globalizations. Please see the orginal version of this article: Juego, Bonn (2019). Rethinking Samir Amin’s legacy and the case for a political organization of the global justice movement. Globalizations, 16 (7), 1109-1115. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2019.1654774 https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/949


Abstract

A case is made here for the desirability and viability of the late Samir Amin’s call for a new International. However, the project to forge a political organization of the global justice movement must in the first instance draw lessons from the limitations of the recent network structure of new social movements, notably the World Social Forum, and rectify the failures of the old internationals of left-wing cadres. The actualization of such a radical idea also needs to observe the realpolitik of class formation and class struggle under conditions of the imperialistic globalization of capitalism today. Envisioned as a plural and participatory learning organization, the new International’s progression should be evolutionary and its strategic engagements have to balance the imperatives of political realism with the ideals of democratic values.


Keywordsglobalisationsocial classesclass struggleglobal justiceinternational movementsleft-wing movementspolitical internationals

Free keywordsclass formation; class struggle; global justice movement; new international; Amin, Samir; World Social Forum


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