The Antiglobalist

The book deals with the left-wing criticism of global capitalism based on Marxist argumentation. It outlines the division in the leftist politics between alter-globalists and anti-globalists. The author advocates for deglobalization and collective identities and against individualism.

Left-wing politics in the 21st century faces an internal disruption. In the era of global capitalism, the majority of leftist thinkers refuse neoliberalism with its focus on liberalization, privatization and deregulation. But they diverse on the question of alternatives: there is a division between the anti-globalist and the alter-globalist Left. Cosmopolitanism or patriotism? Liberalism or communitarianism? Particularism or universalism? Global governance or a nation-state? Individualism or collective identites? The author criticizes both right-wing and left-wing liberalism and defends deglobalisation and the return to the communitarian and (inter)nationalist values of the classical socialist Left.

Autorentext

L'ubos Blaha is a Neo-Marxist philosopher and political scientist at the Institute of Political Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He has written several books on political philosophy, focusing on the issues of social justice, economic democracy, global capitalism and ideology.

Inhalt

Globalisation and left-wing politics Marxist positions deglobalisation with an emphasis on collective identities, national sovereignty and internationalism