World Political Parties and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity

ABSTRACT

The “World Political Parties Forum” with the theme “World Political Parties and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity” was held online on 9 November 2023. Prof. Radhika Desai made a speech “The Domestic Foundations of Multipolarity and the Role of Political Parties,” Dr. Patrick Theuret gave a speech “From Hegemonic War to Peace for a Destiny Shared by the Whole Humanity,” Associate Professor Rocco Lacorte gave a speech “Research on Governing Capacity Construction from the Perspective of World Political Parties,” and Prof. Alberto Lombardo gave a speech “Building a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity.” Below we present them for readers.

KEYWORDS:

• Role of China
• US deficit
• governing capacity
• hegemonic war
• Gramsci

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Notes

1 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in an interview with CNN Turk adding “They want Russia to become weaker.”

2 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “it is important for all of us, that Ukraine wins the battle,” otherwise it will be “not only a big defeat for Ukrainians, but it will be a defeat and dangerous for all of us” (first NATO-Ukraine Council, Brussels, October 11, 2022).

3 United Nations, General Assembly, November 4, 2022, 52 countries voted against the resolution, including almost all European countries, United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand . ..

4 In reference to a parliamentary speech delivered by the famous French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on March 7, 1895.

5 See Lacorte (2018, 28–29), and Manacorda (1964), who provides the readers with a good anthology of Lenin’s texts on “pedagogical” themes and questions.

6 The Prison Notebooks will be quoted from Gramsci 1975, as follows: e.g., Q11, 65, 1492: Q = Notebook; 11 = Notebook’s number; 65 = paragraph’s (i.e., note’s) number; 1492 = page number. If necessary, a letter, A, B or C will follow, respectively indicating: first, unique or second draft of a note.

7 See Liguori (2015, 65–84), for a thorough investigation about the features and specificity of Gramsci’s concept of “ideology.”

8 See Mordenti (2011), where this point is rightly stressed.

9 Also, Mordenti (2011, 89–90) refers—although rapidly—to translatability in connection with the relationship between “class” and “party” in (this note by) Gramsci and to its implications in terms of its theoretical foundation. In this brief article, I am further expanding on it, precisely because I believe, too, that Gramsci was engaging in an unprecedented attempt to develop a theoretical basis of political action and party, whose pivot was constituted by translatability.

10 Note 44 of Notebook 10 (Q10 II, 44) can be better understood if read in connection with a series of other notes where Gramsci deals explicitly with translatability (see Gramsci 1975, Q3, 48; Q4, 42; Q4, 46; Q7, 1; Q7, 2; Q8, 208); but also implicitly, for instance: Q9, 63.

11 The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

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Notes on contributors

Radhika Desai

Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. She proposed a historical materialist approach to understanding world affairs in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013). She has published dozen books, over 100 articles and book chapters on UK, Indian, US and European politics as well as on international political economy. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Turkish, and Spanish. She is a regular opinion contributor to and her pieces have been published in CGTN, Counterpunch, Frontline, The Guardian, the Hindu, RT and the Valdai Discussion Club. She hosts a fortnightly show, Geopolitical Economy Hour on the Geopolitical Economy Report website. Her most recent book is Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022, Open Access).

Patrick Theuret

Patrick Theuret was graduated in political science, public law, management and history. Former Director of International Correspondence. Author of L’Esprit de la révolution, Aufhebung, Marx, Hegel et l'abolition (Le Temps des cerises, Paris, 2016), coordinator of La Chine et le monde, développement et socialisme (Le Temps des cerises, Paris, 2013), and Arise in Unity! The International Crisis Alternatives from the Left (People’s Democracy Publications, New Delhi, 2011).

Rocco Lacorte

Rocco Lacorte is Associate Professor in the School of Marxism, Nankai University, China. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, where defended his dissertation on the concept of “translatability” in Antonio Gramsci. His research interests revolve around Marxism and range mainly from philosophy, to social and political sciences and, in particular, include the theoretical questions related to “translation” (in a broader sense), language, linguistics and their relationship with politics. Among his several publications, he wrote several items of the Dizionario Gramsciano 1926–1937 (2009), co-organized the book Gramsci, Language and Translation (2010) and published the essay “Translation and Marxism” in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics (2018).

Alberto Lombardo

Alberto Lombardo is full professor of statistics at the Engineering Department of the University of Palermo. His research focuses on industrial statistics, design of experiments, statistical models for the social sciences. His major publications include “Balanced Asymmetrical Nearly Orthogonal Designs for First and Second Order Effect Estimation” (Journal of Applied Statistics, 33 (4): 373–386), “Some Reflections on Xi’s Speech at the Meeting on Cultural Inheritance and Development” (in Chinese, World Socialism Studies, no. 7, 2023), “Blaming China, a US Ploy to Make Unfounded Countercharges” (Guangming Daily, September 3, 2021), and URSS. A 100 anni dalla Rivoluzione Sovietica, i perché della caduta (MaleEdizioni, 2017).