Includes bibliographical references and index.

9789004533493 Foreword to the English Edition -- Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Socialist Strategy in the Work of Ernest Mandel -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Theory and Practice -- 1 Occupational Ban and Refusal of Entry 1972 -- 2 Captured by the Nazis -- 3 Role Model Abraham Leon -- 4 Political Work in the Belgian Workers’ Movement -- 5 Role in the Fourth International and Contribution to Theory -- 2 Critique of Contemporary Capitalism -- 1 Mandel’s Historical-Genetic Critique of Capitalism -- 2 Mandel’s Contribution to Marxist Crisis Theory -- 3 Late Capitalism -- 4 Long Waves of Capitalist Development -- 5 Worldwide Inequality -- 3 Socialism: The Utopian Dimension in Mandel’s Work -- 1 The Free Association of Producers: A Stateless, Classless Society -- 2 Socialist Council Democracy and Transition to Socialism -- 3 The Material Prerequisites for Universal Emancipation -- 4 Critique of Bureaucracy -- 1 Mandel’s Explanation and Critique of Bureaucracy in the Workers’ Movement -- 2 Critique of Stalinism -- 3 Breaking up Stalinist Monolithism and the ‘Socialist Camp’ -- 4 The Temptation of Substitutionism: The Roots of Surrogate Politics -- 5 Socialist Strategy -- 1 Prefigurative Forms of the New Society: Mass Strike and Self-Organisation from below -- 2 Strategy of Transitional Demands -- 3 The Dual Character of the Trade Unions -- 4 Class Consciousness and Building Revolutionary Parties -- 5 Critique of Reformism and United Front Policy -- 6 Permanent Revolution and the International Dimension of Socialist Strategy -- 6 Emancipation and Social Catastrophe -- 1 Mandel on Trotsky’s Theory of Fascism -- 2 Mandel and the Holocaust -- 7 Evaluation and Prospects -- 1 Openness and Coherence: A Field of Tension -- 2 The Revolutionary Potential of Western Europe -- 3 Reaction to Gorbachev -- 4 World Historical Rupture 1989–1991 -- 5 Weaknesses of the Concept of ‘Bureaucratised Workers’ States’ -- 6 Historical Determinism -- 7 Karl Marx’s ‘Categorical Imperative’ -- 8 Aporias of Marginality: Mandel’s ‘Last Word’ on Sectarianism -- 9 The Self-Organisation of the Working Class -- Eyewitness Testimony (Tape Recordings from the Author’s Own Archive) -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995) was one of the best-known Marxist scholars active in the second half of the twentieth century. A leading member of the Fourth International, his books on capitalist economics, bureaucracies in the workers’ movement and on power and socialist strategy were translated into many languages. Democratic self-organisation of workers was a red thread that ran through all of his thinking. In Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy , Manuel Kellner presents the first and until now only comprehensive overview of Mandel’s theoretical and political contributions, arguing that his work remains important for the debates on a socialist alternative in the twenty-first century.

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