Re: Warren Wagar on world socialism

Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:22:58 -0400
David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@pobox.com)

At 04:37 PM 22/10/96 -0400, chris chase-dunn wrote:
>The most recent issue of _Review_(xix,3 Summer 1996), the Fernand
>Braudel Center journal, has an article by Warren Wagar in which he
>presents the case for a new transnational socialist party to carry out
>the process of social globalization in the twenty-first century. Wagar's
>article reviews the history of socialist movements and discusses the
>issue of nationalism in world-systems perspective.
>This is an excellent contribution to the discussion we had on WSN during
>the summer about the future of the world-system and global praxis.
>I recommend it to you. REVIEW is in your library or you can contact
>the Fernand Braudel Center at
>http://sociology.adm.binghamton.edu/fbc/fbchmpg.htm

Does he offer any improvement over what the Second International provides at
present -- which is not much, but then it's not clear that anything more is
possible?

-dlj.