Es uno de los académicos marxistas más importantes de la actualidad, y acaba de presentar en Chile su libro Clases, plebes, multitudes, en el que revisa el panorama actual de los movimientos sociales y el rumbo que su resistencia está tomando, particularmente en América Latina. Se sienta en la pequeña mesa de la oficina, vacia […]
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República e Instituciones. Romper el presidencialismo
Esta campaña electoral ha puesto de nuevo en un primer plano la necesaria “reforma” de las instituciones, que al Partido Socialista le cuesta definir. ¿“Francia presidente”? El eslogan de la señora Royal culmina la adhesión del Partido Socialista a la lógica bonapartista de las instituciones de la V República. Tras haber denunciado su “golpe de […]
“Gane quien gane la segunda vuelta, nosotros seguiremos llamando a una convergencia anticapitalista”
La primera parte de esta conversación con Daniel Bensaid tuvo lugar en Granada, a finales de marzo; la hemos proseguido después de la primera vuelta de las elecciones, para poder incluir el análisis de Bensaid sobre sus resultados. La entrevista ha sido realizada por Miguel Romero. En el próximo número publicaremos textos de balance más […]
“Debemos dar un proyecto político a las resistencias”
La Hiedra habló con Daniel Bensaïd, uno de los líderes históricos de la LCR en Francia sobre la situación de la izquierda en Europa y las posibilidades de un nuevo partido anticapitalista. Entrevista por Manel Ros. Manel Ros: ¿Podríamos decir que Francia está situada a la derecha porque Sarkozy es presidente? Daniel Bensaïd: La verdadera […]
How left is Left in Europe? New Centre, Third Way
Capitalism’s project of globalisation seems to be running into problems. The spectacular worsening of the world economic crisis and Gerhard Schröder’s victory in the German elections suggest that good news may be at hand: the end of our winter of neo-liberalism, to be replaced by a spring of social democracy. A “neo” socialism is on […]
Trotsky, revolutions and the constitution of original “Trotskyism”
Certain “Trotskyist” theses, like the theory of permanent revolution, first appeared at the beginning of the century in relation to the Russian revolution of 1905. However, the term “Trotskyism” only appeared, as a banal term of bureaucratic jargon, in 1923-4. After the victorious civil war, and still more in 1924 after the failure of the […]
The Mole and the Locomotive
‘Well said, old mole. Canst work I’th’earth so fast?A worthy pioner.’(Shakespeare, Hamlet I:5). Our old friend is short-sighted. He is a haemophiliac as well. Doubly infirm and doubly fragile. And yet, patiently, obstinately, from tunnel to passage, he cheerfully continues his mole’s progress towards his next invasion. The nineteenth century experienced history as an arrow […]
Five thesis of resistance
The text below, written by Daniel Bensaïd for the journal Viento Sur, represents a bold attempt to track the theoretical challenges faced by Marxism today. According to the author, the theoretical sterility of modern social democracy and other major political trends could result in Marxists sitting on their laurels and merely affirming orthodoxies inherited from […]
The party and the period
The following interview with Daniel Bensaïd was conducted during the Ernest Mandel Symposium held in Brussels on November 19th, 2005 (see IVP n° 372, November 2005). Bensaïd outlines his views on the role of a revolutionary organisation in the present period and recalls his first encounters with Ernest Mandel. The interview appeared in the January […]
France: “The question of a link between workers and students is immediate”
Daniel Bensaid, in this interview with Socialist Worker, reflects on the current battle of the French students and its comparisons with student movements of the past. Socialist Worker: As someone who took part in the mobilisations of May 1968, what do you think are the principal similarities and differences between those events and what’s happening […]