The Fifth International
International or Global
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12433368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Owen Worth (0000-0002-2407-3947, University of Limerick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-328 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/jwsr.2019.957 |
| OpenAlex | W4255138587 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
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.’”
Bourgeoisie · Dialectic · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Internationalism (politics · Materialism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |