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Specifically, the book tackles the question: Who exactly are the anti-capitalists and what do they want? Simon Tormey examines the ideas of the various components that make up the movement: the anarchists and Marxists, the greens and environmentalists, the anti-corporate activists and autonomists, among many others. He looks in detail at how the movement operates its reliance on a unique combination of word-of-mouth, the internet, and communications technology. The examples he draws on include the efforts of the Zapatistas, who helped the indigenous peoples of the Chiapas region of Mexico to establish an autonomous zone beyond the clutches of the Mexican state.
| ISBN | 1851683429 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9781851683420
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oneworld Publications | | Weight (grammes) | 236 | | Imprint | Oneworld Publications | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oneworld Beginners' Guides | | Publication date | 24 May 2004 | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Library of Congress | JC | | Width (mm) | 135 | | DEWEY | 330.122 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General, Tertiary education |
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| | | Introduction : 'beginning' anti-capitalism | | 1 | | 1 | | The hows and whys of the thing called 'capitalism' | | 9 | | | | A question of definition | | 9 | | | | Capitalism as a system of competition | | 15 | | | | Capitalism now | | 17 | | | | Learning to love capitalism | | 26 | | | | Neoliberalism and the end of the political | | 32 | | 2 | | Why 'Seattle'? : 1968, the 'end of history' and the birth of contemporary anti-capitalism | | 38 | | | | Problems of liberal-democracy | | 40 | | | | 1968 and the 'crisis' of oppositional politics | | 48 | | | | Paris '68 : unofficial politics and the new radicalism | | 52 | | | | 1968, 'new social movements' and direct action | | 56 | | | | From Berlin to Seattle : global anti-capitalism and the challenge to neoliberalism | | 61 | | 3 | | A 'movement of movements' I : 'reformism' or 'globalisation with a human face' | | 71 | | | | Analysing anti-capitalist ideas : beginnings | | 74 | | | | 'Strong' and 'weak' (liberal) reformisms | | 78 | | | | 'Strong(er)' reformism - or the return of social democracy | | 88 | | | | 'We are the world' : towards global social democracy | | 95 | | | | Could global social democracy work - for whom? | | 102 | | 4 | | A 'movement of movements' II : renegades, radicals and revolutionaries | | 107 | | | | Marxism after the 'fall of communism' | | 107 | | | | Beyond 'bolshevism' : autonomism, council communism, and 'heterodox' radicalism | | 114 | | | | Anarchism, or the art of not being 'in charge' | | 117 | | | | Deep, deeper, deepest 'green' | | 124 | | | | Ya Basta! : a brief excursus on Marcos and 'Zapatismo' | | 129 | | | More... | | |
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