Brown University: Socialism After the U.S. - China Economic Convergence

Bashir Abu-Manneh on Fanon

South Africa: An Unfinished Revolution?

by Neville Alexander, The Fourth Strini Moodley Annual Memorial Lecture, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 13 May 2010

In her historical novel, A Place of Greater Safety, which is played out against the backdrop of the Great French Revolution through an illuminating character analysis and synthesis of three of that revolution's most prominent personalities, viz., Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Jacques Danton and Camille Desmoulins, Hilary Mantel imagines the following conversation between Lucile Desmoulins and Danton:

So has the Revolution a philosophy, Lucile wanted to know, has it a future?

She dared not ask Robespierre, or he would lecture her for the afternoon on the General Will: or Camille, for fear of a thoughtful and coherent two hours on the development of the Roman republic.  So she asked Danton.

"Oh, I think it has a philosophy," he said seriously.  "Grab what you can, and get out while the going's good."

Neo-liberalism and the new socialism

Speech by Álvaro García Linera, undated, 21st Century Socialism 

Allow me to cover three areas with you: how to distance ourselves from Neo-Liberalism, how the state relates to social movements, and socialism.