Lucien Van Der Walt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102963 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lucien Van Der Walt |
| NOMBRES | Lucien |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Walt |
| FIRMA | VAN DER WALT L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7145-9025 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
State Capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Historical and contemporary analyses of state capitalism have largely by-passed Sub-Saharan Africa in that state capitalism, as a conceptual framework, has generally been absent from analyses of the region, and experiences in the region have generally been absent in discussions of, and theory-building about, state capitalism. This chapter helps redress the situation, by examining African cases, with a focus on the period from the late nineteenth …
Politics at a Distance from the State
Anarchist/syndicalist and independent Marxist intersections in post-apartheid struggles, South Africa
South Africa has a long-established independent left, outside the big traditions of nationalism and Marxism-Leninism. Post-apartheid its fortunes have varied considerably, as space opened up for movements to the left of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, but opportunities declined as the state increased its legitimacy, penetration of civil society, and systems of patronage. This paper looks at cooperation, compet…
Politics at a Distance from the State
Aspects de l’histoire de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, des années 1880 aux années 1920
Cet article examine les débuts de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, presque entièrement négligés dans la littérature existante. S’opposant à l’oppression et à la ségrégation raciales tout en critiquant le nationalisme noir africain et métisse, anarchistes et syndicalistes révolutionnaires développèrent une analyse de plus en plus complexe de l’oppression nationale. Ces courants imbriqués se sont transformés locale…
Politics at a distance from the state
For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical social transformation with the capture of state power. The collapse of supposedly enabling states led recently to a crisis of left and working class politics. But this has also opened space for the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, labelled as ‘at a distance’ politics. These modes have registered important successes in prac…
Back to the future
The failings of classical Marxism, social democracy and anti-imperialist nationalism point to the need for a radical left politics at a distance from the state. This paper examines the impact, revival and promise of the anarchist/syndicalist tradition, a rich, continuous praxis in labour, left, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and egalitarian movements, worldwide, since the 1860s. Outlining its core ideas – anti-hierarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-stat…
Anarchist Discourse in Asian Studies
With time, academics of all disciplines bore even themselves. Recent works on anarchism by Benedict Anderson and James C. Scott, however, have renewed an appreciation for an anarchist approach in the study of political history, while rejuvenating exciting new research about people on the margins of society in Asia. Unlike most scholars of area studies or comparative politics today who care more of being unimportantly right by borrowing a natural …
Worlds of Western Anarchism and Syndicalism
The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914: Exile arid Transnationalism in the First Globalisation, by Constance Bantman. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917), by Pietro Di Paola. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, by Timothy Messer-…
Anarchism/Syndicalism as a Vision, Strategy and Experience of Bottom-up Socialist Democracy
Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser's views that workers' council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing w…
Revolutionary Syndicalism, Communism And The National Question In South African Socialism, 1886–1928
This chapter examines the ways in which Korean radicals in China and Japan were exposed to, and subsequently accepted, anarchism in order to highlight the role of, and tension between, national consciousness and transnational concerns in their conversion to anarchism. It demonstrates the complex relationship between nationalism and anarchism in a colonial situation like Korea, annexed by Japan in 1910. The chapter also examines the activities and…
Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents
Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city
This paper examines the development of anarchism and syndicalism in early twentieth century Cape Town, South Africa, drawing attention to a crucial but neglected chapter of labor and left history. Central to this story were the anarchists in the local Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and the revolutionary syndicalists of the Industrial Socialist League, the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA), and the Sweets and Jam Workers’ Industrial Union. T…
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Hirsch Preface to the Paperback Edition, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt PART ONE: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE COLONIAL WORLD Diverse in race, religion and nationality... but united in aspirations of civil progress: the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940, Anthony Gorman Revolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der Walt Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional…
Negro e Vermelho
This article examines the early history of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism in South Africa, a colonial society that industrialised in the late nineteenth century, and in the surrounding southern African region. South Africa was characterised at the time by a militant (but nationally and racially divided) union movement, and by the pervasive national oppression of people of colour, the majority. Opposed to national oppression and segregati…
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Black Flame
Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. From anarchism's first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today's anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism's lineage and contemporary rel…
Labor History symposium
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since, 1865, by Robert H. Zieger Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2007, ISBN 9780813124605 Robert H. Zieger, now emeritus Professor of Histor
Introduction
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa
Rethinking Worlds of Labour
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
Bakunin's heirs in South Africa
The historiography of the socialist movement in South Africa remains dominated by the interpretations developed by Communist Party writers, and this is particularly true of the left before Communism. This article defines the key arguments of Communist writers regarding the left in the 1910s, and develops a critique and reassessment, stressing the centrality of revolutionary syndicalism and anti‐racism in the early socialist movement on the basis …
The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”
Research Article| May 01 1999 “The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915–1920 Lucien van der Walt Lucien van der Walt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 5–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-19-1-5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Trade Unions in Zimbabwe
The author examines the impact of organised labour on the process of democratisation in Zimbabwe. However, the extent to which democratisation and economic reform has been achieved has been strongly conditioned, on the one hand, by the weaknesses and divisions within the opposition, and by strength and skills of the incumbent regime, on the other. The outcome is the current situation of stalemate in which the formations of working-class organisat…
Rethinking Worlds of Labour
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Hirsch Preface to the Paperback Edition, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt PART ONE: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE COLONIAL WORLD Diverse in race, religion and nationality... but united in aspirations of civil progress: the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940, Anthony Gorman Revolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der Walt Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional…
Bakunin's heirs in South Africa
The historiography of the socialist movement in South Africa remains dominated by the interpretations developed by Communist Party writers, and this is particularly true of the left before Communism. This article defines the key arguments of Communist writers regarding the left in the 1910s, and develops a critique and reassessment, stressing the centrality of revolutionary syndicalism and anti‐racism in the early socialist movement on the basis …
The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”
Research Article| May 01 1999 “The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915–1920 Lucien van der Walt Lucien van der Walt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 5–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-19-1-5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city
This paper examines the development of anarchism and syndicalism in early twentieth century Cape Town, South Africa, drawing attention to a crucial but neglected chapter of labor and left history. Central to this story were the anarchists in the local Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and the revolutionary syndicalists of the Industrial Socialist League, the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA), and the Sweets and Jam Workers’ Industrial Union. T…
Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents
Introduction
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
Back to the future
The failings of classical Marxism, social democracy and anti-imperialist nationalism point to the need for a radical left politics at a distance from the state. This paper examines the impact, revival and promise of the anarchist/syndicalist tradition, a rich, continuous praxis in labour, left, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and egalitarian movements, worldwide, since the 1860s. Outlining its core ideas – anti-hierarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-stat…
Anarchism/Syndicalism as a Vision, Strategy and Experience of Bottom-up Socialist Democracy
Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser's views that workers' council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing w…
Trade Unions in Zimbabwe
The author examines the impact of organised labour on the process of democratisation in Zimbabwe. However, the extent to which democratisation and economic reform has been achieved has been strongly conditioned, on the one hand, by the weaknesses and divisions within the opposition, and by strength and skills of the incumbent regime, on the other. The outcome is the current situation of stalemate in which the formations of working-class organisat…
The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”
Research Article| May 01 1999 “The Industrial Union Is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915–1920 Lucien van der Walt Lucien van der Walt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 5–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-19-1-5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
Bakunin's heirs in South Africa
The historiography of the socialist movement in South Africa remains dominated by the interpretations developed by Communist Party writers, and this is particularly true of the left before Communism. This article defines the key arguments of Communist writers regarding the left in the 1910s, and develops a critique and reassessment, stressing the centrality of revolutionary syndicalism and anti‐racism in the early socialist movement on the basis …
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa
Rethinking Worlds of Labour
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
Entries
Black Flame
Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. From anarchism's first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today's anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism's lineage and contemporary rel…
Labor History symposium
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since, 1865, by Robert H. Zieger Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2007, ISBN 9780813124605 Robert H. Zieger, now emeritus Professor of Histor
Introduction
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Hirsch Preface to the Paperback Edition, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt PART ONE: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE COLONIAL WORLD Diverse in race, religion and nationality... but united in aspirations of civil progress: the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940, Anthony Gorman Revolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der Walt Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional…
Negro e Vermelho
This article examines the early history of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism in South Africa, a colonial society that industrialised in the late nineteenth century, and in the surrounding southern African region. South Africa was characterised at the time by a militant (but nationally and racially divided) union movement, and by the pervasive national oppression of people of colour, the majority. Opposed to national oppression and segregati…
Revolutionary Syndicalism, Communism And The National Question In South African Socialism, 1886–1928
This chapter examines the ways in which Korean radicals in China and Japan were exposed to, and subsequently accepted, anarchism in order to highlight the role of, and tension between, national consciousness and transnational concerns in their conversion to anarchism. It demonstrates the complex relationship between nationalism and anarchism in a colonial situation like Korea, annexed by Japan in 1910. The chapter also examines the activities and…
Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents
Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city
This paper examines the development of anarchism and syndicalism in early twentieth century Cape Town, South Africa, drawing attention to a crucial but neglected chapter of labor and left history. Central to this story were the anarchists in the local Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and the revolutionary syndicalists of the Industrial Socialist League, the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA), and the Sweets and Jam Workers’ Industrial Union. T…
Anarchism/Syndicalism as a Vision, Strategy and Experience of Bottom-up Socialist Democracy
Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser's views that workers' council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing w…
Worlds of Western Anarchism and Syndicalism
The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914: Exile arid Transnationalism in the First Globalisation, by Constance Bantman. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917), by Pietro Di Paola. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, by Timothy Messer-…
Politics at a distance from the state
For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical social transformation with the capture of state power. The collapse of supposedly enabling states led recently to a crisis of left and working class politics. But this has also opened space for the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, labelled as ‘at a distance’ politics. These modes have registered important successes in prac…
Back to the future
The failings of classical Marxism, social democracy and anti-imperialist nationalism point to the need for a radical left politics at a distance from the state. This paper examines the impact, revival and promise of the anarchist/syndicalist tradition, a rich, continuous praxis in labour, left, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and egalitarian movements, worldwide, since the 1860s. Outlining its core ideas – anti-hierarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-stat…
Anarchist Discourse in Asian Studies
With time, academics of all disciplines bore even themselves. Recent works on anarchism by Benedict Anderson and James C. Scott, however, have renewed an appreciation for an anarchist approach in the study of political history, while rejuvenating exciting new research about people on the margins of society in Asia. Unlike most scholars of area studies or comparative politics today who care more of being unimportantly right by borrowing a natural …
Politics at a Distance from the State
Aspects de l’histoire de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, des années 1880 aux années 1920
Cet article examine les débuts de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, presque entièrement négligés dans la littérature existante. S’opposant à l’oppression et à la ségrégation raciales tout en critiquant le nationalisme noir africain et métisse, anarchistes et syndicalistes révolutionnaires développèrent une analyse de plus en plus complexe de l’oppression nationale. Ces courants imbriqués se sont transformés locale…
Anarchist/syndicalist and independent Marxist intersections in post-apartheid struggles, South Africa
South Africa has a long-established independent left, outside the big traditions of nationalism and Marxism-Leninism. Post-apartheid its fortunes have varied considerably, as space opened up for movements to the left of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, but opportunities declined as the state increased its legitimacy, penetration of civil society, and systems of patronage. This paper looks at cooperation, compet…
State Capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Historical and contemporary analyses of state capitalism have largely by-passed Sub-Saharan Africa in that state capitalism, as a conceptual framework, has generally been absent from analyses of the region, and experiences in the region have generally been absent in discussions of, and theory-building about, state capitalism. This chapter helps redress the situation, by examining African cases, with a focus on the period from the late nineteenth …
Politics at a Distance from the State
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