By Pedro Páez Pérez – A century ago, Rosa Luxemburg stated that the historical dilemma humankind faced at that time was either socialism or barbarism. The current global crisis underscores emphatically the need to create the objective and subjective conditions to guarantee a solution that enriches and projects the best of human experience from the last centuries. It is a responsibility incumbent upon the progressive forces to immediately create a resolute programme which will permit political consolidation, while at the same time blocking the emerging neo-fascist agenda and opening the way for major transformations.
Archive for May, 2010
The Crisis of Capitalism and Post-capitalist Horizons
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Is Socialist Politics Possible from a Position in Government?
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Is Socialist Politics Possible from a Position in Government? Five objections by Rosa Luxemburg and five offers for a discussion – By Michael Brie
Participation by the left in governments dominated by other forces has always been controversial. Primarily, five objections to government participation by the left have been formulated, to the effect that: (1) capitalism cannot be changed fundamentally; (2) only a revolution can solve the basic problems; (3) the state is only the instrument of political power of the economically dominant class; (4) government participation inevitably weakens the left; and (5) by its participation in government, the left makes the continuation of rightist politics possible in the first place.
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