Ideas for the Struggle

Ideas for the Struggle





Marta Harnecker

2014 . 56pp. . 5.25x7.5"
ISBN 978-93-81144-39-8 (Pb) . ₹50





“The failure of the Left to harness the huge forces that seethe and boil in actions—large and small against neoliberalism and other capitalist forces and what is to be done to achieve that is the true content of this inspiring book. The major sections in the book are descriptions of Left sectarianism, commandism and the failure to come to terms with the various new features of struggle in a globalized world.”

—Vaskar Nandy

Marta Harnecker is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist. After studying with Louis Althusser in Paris she returned to her native Chile. Upon her return to Chile in 1968, she got caught up in the resistance movement against the coup by General Augusto Pinochet against president Salvador Allende and was forced into exile in Cuba. In Cuba she founded and runs the research institute Memoria Popular Latinoamerica (MEPLA). She is among the most prominent analysts of the experience of social transformation in Latin America. She served as an advisor to President Hugo Chavez during 2003–2011. She is the author of more than eighty books, all of which can be found online at www.rebelion.org. Her recent publications include Hugo Chávez Frías: un hombre, un pueblo (2002), published in English by Monthly Review Press and Daanish Books as Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks with Marta Harnecker (2005), Rebuilding the Left published in English by Zed Books and Daanish Books in 2007 and Ideas for the Struggle (Daanish Books, 2014).