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Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,
wir freuen uns, Ihnen bereits die zweite Nummer der Zeitschrift transform! in deutscher Sprache vorlegen zu können. Wir haben diese nun auch in Umfang, Format und Layout der englischen Ausgabe angeglichen. Im Herbst vergangenen Jahres war die erste Nummer unserer Zeitschrift erschienen, die im Rahmen des thematischen Schwerpunkts „Die Europäische Union neu gründen?“ unterschiedliche Positionen der Linken zur Europäischen Integration zur Diskussion stellte. In den vergangenen Monaten intensivierte sich diese Debatte im Zusammenhang mit dem Prozess der Ratifizierung des Vertrags von Lissabon. Zwei Beiträge der jetzigen Nummer des Journals beschäftigen sich mit dem...

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Inhalt

  • Europäische Union

  • "Reform of the Revolution"

    • Passive Revolution und die Reform der Revolution
    • Im November 2007 organisierte transform! eine Konferenz mit dem Titel „Die Reform der Revolution“. Zwei theoretisch-politische Zielsetzungen sollten mit dem Titel verfolgt werden, und zwar: die...
    • Hegemonie, Gewaltlosigkeit und Transformation
    • Gramsci certainly did not disdain the conquest of power via an assault on its palace. But his idea of revolution perhaps became a “revisionist” one as it was understood by the founding fathers, though it conceded nothing to reformism. Transforming the world is better than turning it upside down in order to leave it essentially as it was before. He defined a (peaceful) “battle between hegemonies”, something not unlike what a not always bad disciple of his was to call “progressive democracy”.

    • Radikale Politik und Ideale
    • Im Vorwort der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie fasst Marx Recht, Politik, Religion, Kunst und Philosophie als „ideologische Formen“, die in sozialen Kämpfen umkämpft sind. An die frühere Analyse in...
    • Arbeit und Leben: Memorandum für eine künftige Untersuchung des (Klassen-?)Bewusstseins
    • The paradox of our times is that the more class position determines people’s lives, the less people think of themselves as members of a class (or of a coalition of classes). This is another way of saying that while the social relations of production continue to play a decisive role, the collective entities that take shape, even if only in the embryonic stage, seem not to orient their political initiatives chiefly around these social relations.

    • Kapitalismus, Sozialismus, Eigentum und Wege der Veränderung: Elementare Fragen neu bedenken
    • The rise of a new capitalism, the current wave of neoliberal globalisation, tthe success of this project of counter-reforms on the one hand and the emergence of new social movements, the attempts to form new political alliances and to initiate alternatives at all levels of society on the other hand — all this makes necessary a re-invention of socialism twenty years after the break-down of the Soviet bloc.

    • Über Wirtschaftsdemokratie
    • Throughout the world there is consensus around the idea of democracy as the one and only viable concept of a good order. However, that consensual view remains restricted to the realm of politics. A good society today is conceived as a mix of political democracy and … a capitalist market economy. In this view, capitalism is seen as complementary to democracy, but clearly distinct from it. A capitalist economy is not necessarily perceived as a democratic order in itself; it can be undemocratic or democratic, as long as it goes together with a democratic political order that will counterweigh, even outweigh, the despotism of capital and free markets.

    • Rot und Grün: Die öko-sozialistische Perspektive
    • The earth’s ecological crisis has reached a decisive turning point with the phenomenon of climate change, a fateful process that is accelerating much more rapidly than predicted. The accumulation of CO2, the rise in temperature, the melting of the polar ice, drought, floods: everything is happening very quickly, and the scientific assessments, while the ink is still drying, are already superseded, and perceived as too optimistic.  

    • Nachrichten von Irgendwo: Bürgerhaushalte und gesellschaftliche Umgestaltung
    • What is the value of Participatory Budgeting (PB) for a strategy of social transformation? Is it a mystification aimed at keeping people busy apart from what really matters? Or is it, on the contrary, a step forward on the path to overcoming domination? Since the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) in Brazil launched the first internationally known PB process in Porto Alegre in 1989 a lively debate has been developing around the transformative scope of these experiences.

    • Einen „Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts“ aufbauen Mitbestimmungsdemokratie in Lateinamerika
    • It has become fashionable nowadays to associate the student and youth movement of 1968 with the worldwide attempt to build a political culture of a new kind; but very few bear in mind the qualitatively different impact this outburst of subjectivity had on the political developments in the North and in the South and East. While in the North – the US as well as Western Europe – the 1968 movement shaped an overall criticism of the institutionalised societies as such and a radical critique of the upcoming “consumer-societies”, in the South and in Eastern Europe it gave way to a kind of revolutionary impulse against the existing order, whether ruled by party hierarchies or military dictatorships.

  • Chronik

    • Beauvoir lesen
    • Sie läse Beauvoir nicht so gern, sagt mir die junge Frau, die einen Beitrag über Beauvoir machen will. Es zöge einen so hinunter, meint sie. Die junge Frau schaut dabei vor sich auf den Tisch und...
    • Die Linke ohne Arbeit
    • Im April hat das Left Forum, ein finnisches Mitglied des transform-Netzwerks, ein Buch mit dem Titel „Vasemmisto etsii työtä“ (Die Linke auf Arbeitssuche) bei Like Publishing Ltd. herausgegeben, das...
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