Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Written as a tribute to the revolutionary intellectual and leader Mzala Nxumalo, this book discusses the significance of his work in the context of contemporary South African left politics. It explores the history and struggle of the apartheid era that preceded the advent of democracy to analyze a crucial aspect of the national question – that is, the quest for the establishment of a united South Africa to overcome racist and sexist policies that create and nurture divisions among black people.The subjects in this book deal with a wide range of topics, including the new social, economic and political challenges facing democratic South Africa; the need to reexamine the critique of capitalism in the 21st century; the relationship between race, class and community struggles; and the ecological challenges under capitalism.Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:750 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:389
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032861098

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Robert J. Balfour is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at North-West University, South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation-rated academic and has published frequently on language learning and literacy, rural education and postcolonial literature.

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‘In a dispiriting present, these wide-ranging essays reinvigorate left analysis, with many drawing on the work of the communist intellectual and militant Mzala Nxumalo. This reaching back to engage the present means that this volume is an important contribution to sustaining a national left intellectual tradition, aproject in dialogue with the best ideas from around the world. Mzala, as he was and remains known, was committed to a nonsectarian approach to building a left project and these essays will be useful to people across the South African left, and elsewhere.’— Scholar, journalist, editor, teacher and activist; author of Writing the Decline: on the Struggle for South Africa’s Democracy (2016) and editor of Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Richard Pithouse

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Acronyms and abbreviationsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Mzala Nxumalo’s ideas in post-apartheid South AfricaPART 1: MZALA AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION1. Radical Left Thought Revival: Mzala’s Views and Their Applicability in Contemporary South Africa2. The National Question and Exile: Remembering Mzala in London3. Socialism is the Future: Comrade Mzala’s Thoughts on the National Question4. The First and Second Transitions and the National Question in South Africa5. The EFF’s Perspective on ‘What is the Future of the Left in South Africa in a Global Context?’6. The Dilemma of the Post-1994 Democratic Breakthrough: A Broad Survey of Community Struggles in South AfricaPART 2: COMMUNITY, STATE AND GLOBE: ISSUES, STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF WORK7. The Challenges of Economic and Social Development in South Africa: Left Perspectives8. Global Economic Imperialism and the Politics of (Under) Development: Street Traders, Domestic Workers and Sex Workers9. Social and Economic Challenges from a Left Perspective10. After Revisionist Marxism: Reanimating the Critique of Capitalism in South Africa11. Emerging Powers and the Polycentric World12. Ecocide or Socialism: Ecological Challenges and Neoliberal Capitalist Constrains on Radical TransformationConclusion: The Future of Leftist Thought in a New CenturyAbout the ContributorsIndex