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2. Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach.
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Suarez, Andres and Ume, Chukwuma
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DEVELOPING countries ,AGRICULTURE ,AGRICULTURAL ecology ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social and environmental ramifications. This paper aims to outline the solutions needed to revamp these challenges, by paying special attention to the state-capital nexus in the context of the FS'global core-periphery dialectics. Thereby, we embrace radical political agroecology as being essential in promoting sustainability within the FS, especially in the Global South. Agroecology is proposed as the strategy to address the food system's complexity in terms of the social, environmental, and economic embeddedness. We conclude with potential solutions that contribute to the pathway for FS sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Preface.
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Das, Raju J. and Latham, Robert E.
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MARXIST philosophy ,SOCIAL context - Abstract
The three articles were originally presented as papers on a panel organized by Robert Latham, at the Socialist Studies Conference at York University in 2023. While more or less focused on Marxism in academia, the articles deal with different regional contexts: Hyun Ok Park deals with South Korea, Robert Latham with the US, and Raju Das with India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
4. El FMI como instrumento clave en la lucha de clases: reflexiones a partir de América Latina.
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Barkin, David and Santarcángelo, Juan
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INTERNATIONAL finance , *SOCIAL conflict , *CAPITAL financing , *CONCRETE , *SOCIAL dominance - Abstract
The aim of this paper is: first, to show that the relationship between Latin America and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a faithful reflection of a class struggle on a world scale, where the correlation of internal and external forces has been articulated over the years in favor of capital; second, to analyze the concrete possibilities that the region will face in the future if it intends to reverse this unfavorable history. The paper argues that the IMF has played a key role in the reconfiguration and extension of the dominance of international finance capital over the productive resources of Latin America by favoring the consolidation of a local capitalist class subordinated to the designs and power of transnational capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Політизація та мілітаризація сфери дитячого дозвілля у радянській Україні 1929–1939 рр
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Nani Hohokhiia
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класові вороги ,political education ,література ,ігри ,Ukrainian ,media_common.quotation_subject ,політизація ,клубне дозвілля ,Politics ,політичне виховання ,reading ,Political science ,toys ,politicization ,мілітаризація ,Communism ,Militarization ,media_common ,games ,Government ,militarization ,class enemies ,політична освіта ,читання ,club leisure ,holidays ,World War II ,literature ,класова боротьба ,Media studies ,іграшки ,language.human_language ,Militarism ,дозвілля ,leisure ,language ,class struggle ,discourse ,Ideology ,свята ,дискурс - Abstract
The article analyzes the peculiarities of the process of politicization and militarization of children’s leisure in Soviet Ukraine in 1929–1939. The content of the transformation of traditional and creation of new forms of children’s leisure is revealed. The key concepts of ideological substantiation of the need to maximally fill the child’s free time with political and educational practices are identified. The evolution of the new tradition of club leisure and its filling with political content is analyzed. Forms of political and educational work with children in their free time have been reconstructed. The methods of involving children in the political campaigns of the Soviet government by filling the discourse of children’s leisure with the political and militaristic rhetoric are described. The mechanisms of introduction of the state control over such kinds of children’s leisure as reading, thanks to the formation of new children’s literature and creation of the system of propaganda of new work are investigated. It shows how a network of libraries was built into this system, which was tasked with organizing the work of forming a new mass reader. The process of involving children in the culture of the new Bolshevik holidays and its connection with the main tasks of the government in the field of education of conscious and loyal citizens is demonstrated. During the second half of the 1930s, at the initiative of the Ukrainian Soviet leadership, the Christmas tree was restored and transformed, which was filled with new ideological content and used to promote Bolshevik’s achievements and demon- strate the Communist Party’s concern for young citizens. The influence of the political situation on the development of the game sphere of children’s leisure is highlighted, and the power of the process of its militarization on the eve of the Second World War is emphasized. This applied to both mobile children’s games and board games, which were made according to the party’s tasks with an ideological load and included political games and military-themed games. Children’s toys were also modernized, including Christmas tree decorations and toys related to military equipment, military and political events, collective farm construction, and Soviet symbols were added to the traditional toy theme., У статті проаналізовано особливості процесу політизації та мілітаризації сфери дитячого дозвілля в радянській Україні 1929–1939 рр. Розкрито зміст трансформації традиційних та ство- рення нових форм дитячого дозвілля. Визначено ключові концепти ідеологічного обґрунтування не- обхідності максимально наповнити вільний час дитини політично-виховними практиками. Проана- лізовано еволюцію нової традиції клубного дозвілля та наповнення її політичним змістом. Реконструйовано форми політично-освітньої роботи з дітьми у вільний від навчання час. Надано характеристику методів залучення дітей до політичних кампаній радянської влади за допомогою наповнення дискурсу дитячого дозвілля політичною та мілітаристською риторикою. Досліджено механізми впровадження державного контролю над таким різновидом дитячого дозвілля, як читання, завдяки формуванню нової дитячої літератури та створенню системи пропаганди нових творів. Продемонстровано процес залучення дітей до культури нових більшовицьких свят і його зв’язок з основними завданнями влади у галузі виховання свідомих та відданих громадян. Висвітлено вплив політичної кон’юнктури на розвиток ігрової сфери дитячого дозвілля, підкреслено потуж- ність процесу її мілітаризації напередодні Другої світової війни.
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- 2021
6. Mensagens falsas sobre o novo coronavírus: legitimidade e manipulação na luta de classes.
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DA SILVA LIMA, Guilherme, MORAES CALAZANS, Marcos, and MASSI, Luciana
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COVID-19 pandemic , *ILLEGITIMACY , *LANGUAGE & languages , *MATERIALISM , *ANIMISM - Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the first false messages composition on the new coronavirus and Covid-19 that circulated in Brazil. The analysis problematize the relationships between form and content that give legitimacy to the messages and how they are inserted in the class struggle. We used the contributions of the Circle, especially Volóchinov, on the nature of language associated with contributions from the field of historical and dialectical materialism, to analyze 11 messages, two of which were analyzed deeply. The results indicated that false communications are inserted in the class struggle seeking to manipulate the interlocutor and they appropriated and mobilized elements, mainly from the spheres of Science and Journalism, to give the effect of credibility and legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
7. Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach
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Andres Suarez and Chukwuma Ume
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critical realism ,state-capital nexus ,food regime ,class struggle ,radical political agroecology ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 ,Food processing and manufacture ,TP368-456 - Abstract
Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social and environmental ramifications. This paper aims to outline the solutions needed to revamp these challenges, by paying special attention to the state-capital nexus in the context of the FS’global core-periphery dialectics. Thereby, we embrace radical political agroecology as being essential in promoting sustainability within the FS, especially in the Global South. Agroecology is proposed as the strategy to address the food system’s complexity in terms of the social, environmental, and economic embeddedness. We conclude with potential solutions that contribute to the pathway for FS sustainability.
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- 2024
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8. As relações entre política, economia e sustentabilidade: um modelo de análise baseado no materialismo histórico.
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SILVA NETO, Benedito
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HISTORICAL materialism ,MODERN society ,HISTORICAL analysis ,SYSTEM dynamics ,HEGEMONY - Abstract
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- 2023
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9. Simon Clarke's Marxism and Latin America.
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Pascual, Rodrigo and Ghiotto, Luciana
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MARXIST philosophy ,SOCIAL conflict ,SCHOOL rules & regulations ,CIVIL society ,STRUCTURALISM - Abstract
Simon Clarke left an invaluable critical mark on Marxism. Despite his magnanimous work, he is relatively unknown in Latin America because very few texts have been translated into Spanish. We focus on Clarke's vision and theory of the state, which is of fundamental importance to research in Latin America. First, we focus on his comprehension of the class struggle category to understand the capitalist state's emergence. Second, we show the importance of his analysis of the subordination of the state and civil society to the rule of money and law. Third, we emphasise his particular way of understanding the social relations of production, which results in his incisive critique of structuralism and the regulation school. Finally, we point out that his understanding of the social relations of production led to a specific way of understanding Marxism that is 'Simon Clarke's Marxism'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Enlisted in struggle: Being Marxist in a time of protracted crisis.
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Kanna, Ahmed
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CLASS consciousness ,DILEMMA ,STRUGGLE ,SOCIAL conflict ,FINANCIAL crises ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
In this article, I analyze Marxist activists' narratives of becoming Marxist and their practices in activist spaces. Drawing on Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khansnabish's notion of "militant ethnography" and on Jodi Dean's recuperation of the political party form of organizing, I ethnographically describe activists' motivations to become Marxist and examine two events—a pro-Bernie political meeting and an anti-Trump rally—in which activists intervened with the Marxist idea of "uniting working-class struggles" in democratic spaces. I argue that the socialist party form of organization addresses two related dilemmas that anti-capitalist activists face in the context of systemic economic and political crises in the United States: how to develop class consciousness and how to engage in the seemingly impossible, personally risky endeavor of radically challenging capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. ALTHUSSER'S PERPETUAL MOTION: FABIO BRUSCHI'S LE MATERIALISME POLITIQUE DE LOUIS ALTHUSSER.
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MONTAG, WARREN
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SOCIAL conflict ,HISTORICAL source material ,THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
In this article, I show how Bruschi's Le matérialisme politique de Louis Althusser offers, against all attempts conjure up a self-generating general theory of history, a reconstruction of Althusser's work that shows how its systematicity relies upon the unfinished, incomplete and provisional character of scientific research, always subject to constant rectification. I then claim that, from the conceptualisation of the reproduction of the mode of production as dependent upon the singularity of the conjuncture, to the theorisation of the encounter as the source of historical necessity, this constant reworking is crucial to Althusser's ability to grasp the reality of class struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso
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Bettina Engels
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Archeology ,Global and Planetary Change ,classes of labour ,300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft ,Anthropology ,Africa ,Burkina Faso ,class struggle ,class analysis ,cotton - Abstract
This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face in organizing and pursuing their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a case study, it analyses how various ‘classes of labour’ organize and mobilize for collective action to raise their claims: poor cotton farmers and workers in the cotton factories. Poor and middle farmers recently came to the fore when they boycotted cotton production in large numbers. The study focusses on the boycott campaign, and more broadly on class struggle and collective action by farmers and workers, on interclass alliances, and on capital's attempts to play the classes of labour against one another. The boycott campaign provides an outstanding case to analyse the interests of the various classes of labour and of opportunities for rural–urban mobilization and alliances across classes of labour. I argue that poor farmers and factory workers along the chain of cotton production can be considered as various classes of labour that are not necessarily antagonistic to one another but, first and foremost, to capital. In order to achieve radical transformation in the agrarian context, what is needed are networks and organizations to establish interclass solidarity and alliances.
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- 2023
13. False messages about the coronavirus: legitimacy and manipulation in the class struggle
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Lima, Guilherme Da Silva, Calazans, Marcos Moraes, Massi, Luciana [UNESP], Univ Fed Ouro Preto, and Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
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fake news ,manipulation ,coronavirus ,class struggle ,ideology - Abstract
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T17:20:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-08-01 This paper aims to analyze the first false messages composition on the new coronavirus and Covid-19 that circulated in Brazil. The analysis problematize the relationships between form and content that give legitimacy to the messages and how they are inserted in the class struggle. We used the contributions of the Circle, especially Volochinov, on the nature of language associated with contributions from the field of historical and dialectical materialism, to analyze 11 messages, two of which were analyzed deeply. The results indicated that false communications are inserted in the class struggle seeking to manipulate the interlocutor and they appropriated and mobilized elements, mainly from the spheres of Science and Journalism, to give the effect of credibility and legitimacy. Univ Fed Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- 2021
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