Capital-in-crisis, trade unionism and the question of revolutionary agency
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: `Practical Critical Activity' and the Conception of Revolutionary Agency -- pt. I Globalizing Capital-in-Crisis -- ch. 2 The Altered Character of Capitals Crisis -- ch. 3 A Century of Lenin's Imperialism -- ch. 4 On Changes in the Proletariat with Capitalist Globalization and the Need for a Critique of Marx's Conception of the Proletariat -- ch. 5 The Impact of Capital-in-Crisis on Nature -- ch. 6 The Trajectory of Trade Unionism Under Capital's Unfolding Structural Crisis -- ch. 7 Capital's Offensive against Social Provision -- pt. II Impasse and Outmodedness: The Twilight of the Trade Unions -- ch. 8 The Organization of the Proletariat under Cyclical and Structural Forms of Capital's Crisis -- ch. 9 Labour's Growing Crisis of Organization -- pt. III Breaking Out of the `Bottleneck' of Historically Limited, Self-Subsistent Trade Union Organization -- ch. 10 Socialist Pluralism' and the Conception of the `Social Union' -- ch. 11 From Trade Unions Towards the Formation of `Social Unions'? -- ch. 12 The Social Union as Revolutionary Agency against the Capital Order -- pt. IV The Question of Revolutionary Agency in the Twentieth Century -- ch. 13 Lenin and the Question of Revolutionary Agency -- ch. 14 Trotsky's Transitional Programme, the `Bolshevist-Leninist' Approach to Trade Unionism and the Demise of the Sectarian Politics of the `Revolutionary Left' -- ch. 15 A Critique of `Vanguardism' and the `Party-Form' -- Appendices -- Appendix I Marx's Realms: Capital, Natural Necessity, True Realm of Freedom -- Appendix III The Broadcasting and Print Media: In the Ideological Service of Capital and its State Power -- Appendix III Whatever Happened to the `National Liberation Struggle'?