The Socialist Register 1994

Between Globalism and Nationalism

Edited by Ralph Miliband, Leo Panitch

Contents

Preface

Thirty Years of The Socialist Register
by Ralph Miliband

Edward Thompson, The Communist Party and 1956
by John Saville

Richard Rorty and the Righteous Among the Nations
by Norman Geras

Globalisation and the State
by Leo Panitch

Capitalism and the Nation State in the Dog Days of the Twentieth Century
by Manfred Bienefeld

Globalisation and Stagnation
by Arthur MacEwan

’Competitive Austerity’ and the Impasse of Capitalist Employment Policy
by Gregory Albo

Globalism, Socialism and Democracy in the South African Transition
by John S. Saul

The Development of Capitalism in Vietnam
by Gerard Greenfield

The Decline of the Left in South East Asia
by Kevin Hewison and Gerry Rodan

The Left in Russia
by Poul Funder Larsen and David Mandel

Workers and Intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic Patty
by Lee Parmalee

Germany’s Party of Democratic Socialism
by Eric Canepa

About the Authors

 Leo Panitch is a Distinguished Research Professor, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register. He received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba in 1967 and a M.Sc.(Hons.) and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1968 and 1974, respectively. He was a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at Carleton University between 1972 and 1984. He has been a Professor of Political Science at York University since 1984. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at York from 1988-1994. He was the General Co-editor of State and Economic Life series, U. of T. Press, from 1979 to 1995 and is the Co-founder and a Board Member of Studies in Political Economy. He is also the author of numerous articles and books dealing with political science including The End of Parliamentary Socialism (1997). He was a member of the Movement for an Independent and Socialist Canada, 1973-1975, the Ottawa Committee for Labour Action, 1975-1984, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Committee of Socialist Studies, the Marxist Institute and the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently a supporter of the Socialist Project.