The Fifth International: International or Global?

Authors

  • Owen Worth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.957

Keywords:

Internationalism, Left Nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg

Abstract

Worth welcomes Amin’s call for a renewal of Internationalism, but he is critical of the “significant shortcoming of understanding an internationalist strategy around a traditional collection of national struggles.” Recalling Rosa Luxemburg’s contributions to the second International at the 100th anniversary of her brutal murder, he notes: Luxemburg … condemned any form of nationalism as a tool used by the bourgeoisie in order to divide the proletariat….[F]or Luxemburg, the whole notion of dialectical materialism should be understood not through the development of existing structures but as a process where new structures emerge and develop over time. Likewise, Internationalism should not be something restricted by structures of the present, nor by pre-existing norms such as national sovereign, but instead be understood as a mechanism that could move beyond the confines of the present towards the realms of the ‘possible.’”

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Published

2019-09-03

How to Cite

Worth, O. (2019). The Fifth International: International or Global?. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(2), 321–328. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.957

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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