The Crisis This Time: Socialist Register 2011 (Socialist Register)

by Leo Panitch

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Crises have a way of clarifying things. The Left has always recognized that crises mean, first and foremost, untold suffering by the most vulnerable sections of society, the scars of which remain long after the crises abate. This is why serious socialists have never welcomed economic breakdown. But precisely because of their disruptive effects on business as usual, economic crises also present political opportunities. In previous crises, such as in the Great Depression, and even in the late 1960s and 1970s, economic dislocation became the occasion for massive social explosions and gains for the working people. Since the current...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780850367096
  • Publish Date 1 October 2010 (first published 10 October 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint The Merlin Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Language English