The fifth International

International or global

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12716636
AutoresOwen Worth (0000-0002-2407-3947, University of Limerick, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen16
Número7
Páginas1062-1068
Fecha de publicación2019-08-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2019.1654679
OpenAlexW2969945857
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas15

This short piece questions Samir Amin’s interpretation of what he meant by the International. In envisaging a fifth International, Amin tends to rely on a collection of inter-connected self-determined sovereign entities that resembles more of a traditional understanding of internationalism and less of the transnational global expression developed at the World Social Forums. This suggests that such an approach falls into the same problems that Rosa Luxemburg illustrated during the Second International where she outlined the dangers of what we might refer to today as ‘left nationalism’

Economic geography · Economics · International trade · Political science · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Political Economy and Marxism