The crisis of finance market capitalism:

Challenge for the Left

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Institute of Social Analysis

RLS Kontrovers 2009_01

The Crisis of Finance Market Capitalism (Download)

The brave new world of neoliberalism lies in ruins. Its wealth turned out to be robbery, sham and deceit. The Left is in a new situation. Without its self-transformation and the development of a capacity to act that is adequate to the times, it will squander for a long time any possibility of becoming a force of social, ecological, democratic and peace-promoting social transformation beyond capitalism. This paper, presented here in a shortened form, aims to contribute to the discussion about the strategies of a Left that is renewing itself in the crisis of neoliberalism. ...