Rethinking Samir Amin’s Legacy and the Case for a Political Organization of the Global Justice Movement

Authors

  • Bonn Juego

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.949

Keywords:

Class formation, Class Struggle, Global Justice Movement, New International, Samir Amin, World Social Forum

Abstract

Juego argues that the new Internationale’s “primary organizational function should be the global coordination of actions of progressive grassroots movements from country to country.” He calls for a ‘learning organization,’ where the new Internationale supports “a continuous dialogue between bottom-up and top-down approaches to decision-making.” He sees it as “[a]kin to a global coordinating council” meaning that it works to integrate and synthesize the “varying initiatives, campaigns, and mass actions at all geographical levels of membership” while remaining mindful of the “dialectics between reform and revolution.” The new Internationale must, moreover, be “grounded on a pragmatic understanding of realpolitik especially in struggles at national and local scales,” and institutionalize a commitment to dialogue, research, and discussion.

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Published

2019-09-03

How to Cite

Juego, B. (2019). Rethinking Samir Amin’s Legacy and the Case for a Political Organization of the Global Justice Movement. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(2), 336–344. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.949

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2019): Summer/Fall 2019

Section

Forum: Samir Amin's Call for New International of Workers and Peoples

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