出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：An instrument for deception then. Undoubtedly, but also the sign of an opportunity. The fact that, in 1999, thirteen out of the fi fteen states of the European Union have "leftish" governments, including Social-Democratic ministers; that in eleven of them2leftists have a dominant position; that only Spain and Ireland are still ruled by conservatives; all of these have their sig-nifi cance. It means that people in Western Europe are rejecting the Ameri-can model, that they are yearning for something different. True, it is the role of the Social-Democratic governments to temper their mood, to chan-nel the discontent so as to prevent it from challenging existing society. But they need not necessarily be successful. With the gospel of globalization shaken by the Asian crisis and its consequences in Russia, Latin America and beyond, with the pensée unique, as the French call the ruling ideology, losing its monopoly for the fi rst time in years, a new New Left now has a possibility to help the movement from below to search for an alternative that is both radical and internationalist and thus to put pressure on these governments. In other words, it can restore the "third way" to its original meaning—the search for a socialist resurrection
