Violence today : actually-existing barbarism by Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin instant download

Violence today : actually-existing barbarism by Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin instant download

277 pages ; 24 cm, \"The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and the roots of paradigmatic cases of violence around the world. And several of the concluding essays deal, from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.\"--BOOK JACKET, Includes bibliographical references, Reflections on violence today / Henry Bernstein, Colin Leys, and Leo Panitch -- American militarism and the U.S. political establishment : the real lessons of the invasion of Iraq / Vivek Chibber -- On-screen barbarism : violence in U.S. visual culture / Philip Green -- Race, prisons and war : scenes from the history of U.S. violence / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- State talk, state silence : work and 'violence' in the UK / Joe Sim and Steve Tombs -- Violence's victims : the gender landscape / Lynne Segal -- Girls as disposable commodities in India / Barbara Harriss-White -- India's paradigmatic communal violence / Achin Vanaik -- Reflections on Indonesian violence : two tales and three silences / Tania Murray Li -- Colombia : old and new patterns of violence / Ulrich Oslender -- The commodification of violence in the Niger Delta / Sofiri Joab-Peterside and Anna Zalik -- Revolutionaries, barbarians or war machines? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa / Dennis Rodgers and Steffen Jensen -- Emancipation and the left : the issue of violence / Michael Brie -- The defense of humanity requires the radicalization of popular struggles / Samir Amin -- Human shield / John Berger