At 08:18 21/07/2007, Julio wrote:
This summer, I've been trying to catch up with readings that I had had
to postpone for this reason or the other. Three books that stimulated
a lot of thinking were David Laibman's _Deep History: A Study in
Social Evolution and Human Potential_, Fernand Braudel's _A History of
Civilizations_, and Marta Harnecker's _La Izquierda en el umbral del
siglo XXI: Haciendo posible lo imposible_, whose English version is
available free-of-charge on the web:
http://www.rebelion.org/harnecker/030828century.pdf
http://www.rebelion.org/harnecker/030828century1.pdf
http://www.rebelion.org/harnecker/030828century2.pdf
Not free of charge but in English rather than Spanish is Marta's
'Rebuilding the Left' (published earlier this year by Zed Books),
which incorporates the best parts of 'The Left on the Threshold....'
(omitting the section on global capitalism) and expands the part on
the party, drawing also upon the new Venezuelan experiences since
1999. The section on the Party from the original book has been talked
about extensively by Chavez in his advocacy of the new unified
socialist party for Venezuela.
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Director, Programme in 'Transformative Practice and Human Development'
Centro Internacional Miranda, P.H.
Residencias Anauco Suites, Parque Central, final Av. Bolivar
Caracas, Venezuela
fax: 0212 5768274/0212 5777231
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