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Title: A Love Letter to the Many
Sub-title: Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa
South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, the SACP, and one of the most militant labour union federations in the world, COSATU.
Yet, South Africa is at a crossroads and many are deeply concerned about its future. This book explains through a political economy/ecology analysis why and how the degeneration of national liberation politics has happened, while making praxis-centered arguments for a new transformative left politics.
Author information:
Vishwas Satgar, Ph.D (2009), University of the Witwatersrand, is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witswatersrand, editor of the Democratic Marxism book series, and principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. He is an award-winning veteran activist.
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