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>From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Forwarded from Socialist Review
>
>For Socialist Review's upcoming Special Section on Anti-Capitalism, we are
>assembling a Roundtable discussion. Please e-mail or send in five copies of
>your responses and commentaries of approximately 500-2000 words (along with
>a 1-2 line bio), as well as other visual forms of creative, radical
>expression, by 1 September 2000 to the address below. We look forward to
>your active participation.
>
>{Please distribute this Call for Responses to other people and lists that
>might be interested. Apologies for cross-posting.}
>
>The recent rise in resistance against economic globalization and the police
>state exemplified in the US by the actions against the WTO, the IMF and the
>World Bank, the rise in anti-sweatshop activism, and anti-prison organizing
>has raised excitement about the possibility for fighting capitalism. At
>Socialist Review, we want to seize this opportunity to ask activists and
>academics, Marxists and postmoderns (yes, we acknowledge that these
>categories are not mutually exclusive) to tell us what kinds of theorizing
>and politics are relevant to their practice. More specifically, we want to
>know what resistance and struggle in the present period looks like. The
>following questions are offered to spark some critical discussion about
>these critical issues.
>
>1. Is 'capitalism' an important category in your politics? If so, what
>exactly do you mean by 'anti-capitalism'? What is the relationship between
>capitalism as a mode of production and capitalism as a discursive category?
>Is it just one category among others---such as race, sexuality, gender,
>coloniality--or does it have a special centrality in your thinking and
>practice?
>
>2. Are the categories of 'Marxism', or 'postmodernism' useful in your
>political and intellectual work? If so, what kind of Marxism or
>postmodernism? If not, what other schools of thought are helpful to you?
>
>3. How important is having an alternative to capitalism, e.g., socialism,
>for you? If so, what would you call it? How would you define and describe
>it? 4. How is fighting against 'capitalism' connected---or
>disconnected---from struggles against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other
>systems of oppression?
>
>5. Does it make sense to envision revolution with a capital 'R' as a
>necessary condition for a just society? Or is radical democracy a better
>and more useful concept?
>
>6. What connections, if any, do you see between anti-sweatshop and
>anti-globalism organizing and an anti-capitalist agenda? Does it matter if
>activists talk about capitalism?
>
>7. How important---and helpful---is it to argue for the connections between
>the prison-industrial complex and capitalism when organizing youth of color
>against criminalization of young people?
>
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>Louis Proyect
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