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  1. The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
  2. Power and Need in Africa
    Basic Human Needs and Development Policies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Ben Wisner makes a case for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future. He shows how a new African renaissance could spring from a radical basic-needs approach. A renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women's emancipation and social justice, will stand as a refutation of the new, conservative pragmatism popular among development experts.
  3. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  4. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  5. Whole Earth Discipline
    An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    Brand's solution to tackling global warming is dense cities, nuclear power, GMO crops -- these are pragmatic solutions, using innovation to maximize efficiency. They will require environmentalists to accept risks and compromises.


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