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Leo Victor Panitch, (born May 3, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University. Since 1985, he has served as co-editor of the ''Socialist Register'', which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left." Panitch himself sees the ''Register'' as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian, socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation and insecurity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canada Research Chairs: Leo V. Panitch )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Socialist Register )〕〔Panitch, Leo. "Registering Class and Politics: fifty years of the ''Socialist Register''" in ''Socialist Register 2014: Registering Class'', edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber. London: The Merlin Press, 2013.〕〔 Since his appointment as a Canada Research Chair in 2002, Panitch has focused his academic research and writing on the spread of global capitalism. He argues that this process of globalization is being led by the American state through agencies such as the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Panitch sees globalization as a form of imperialism, but argues that the American Empire is an "informal" one in which the US sets rules for trade and investment in partnership with other sovereign, but less powerful, capitalist states. His latest book, ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire'' (2012), written with his close friend and university colleague Sam Gindin, traces the development of American-led globalization over more than a century.〔〔Panitch, Leo and Gindin, Sam (2012). ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire''. London: Verso.〕 In 2013, the book was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in the U.K. for best and most creative work in or about the Marxist tradition and in 2014, it won the Rik Davidson/SPE Book Prize for the best book in political economy by a Canadian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Past Recipients )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book Prize in Political Economy )〕 Panitch is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and nine books including, ''Working-Class Politics in Crisis: Essays on Labour and the State'' (1986), ''The End of Parliamentary Socialism: from New Left to New Labour'' (2001) and, ''Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination'' (2008) in which he argues that capitalism is inherently unjust and undemocratic.〔〔 ==Early life== Leo Victor Panitch grew up in Winnipeg's North End, a working-class neighbourhood that, as he noted decades later, produced "many people of a radical left political disposition."〔Panitch, Leo. ''Globe and Mail'', "Why was Winnipeg a hotbed for radicals? The socialist culture of Jewish, working-class immigrants in the city's North End came to define the whole community. PROFILES IN DISSENT: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the West," June 28, 1997, p.D12.〕 His Jewish father, Max Panitch, was born in the southern Ukraine town of Uscihtsa, but remained behind in Bucharest, Romania with a fervently religious uncle when his family emigrated to Winnipeg in 1912. He was reunited with them in 1922 and by that time was well on his way to becoming a socialist and a Labour Zionist. As a sewer and cutter of fur coats (an 'aristocrat of the needle trade'), he was active in the Winnipeg labour movement and the Manitoba CCF and its successor, the NDP. Panitch's mother, Sarah, was an orphan from Rivne in the central Ukraine who had come to Winnipeg in 1921 at the age of 13 accompanied only by her older sister. Max and Sarah married in 1930. Panitch's older brother Hersh was born in 1934.〔''Canadian Who's Who''. Canada's Information Resource Centre Database, Grey House Publishing.〕〔Jewish radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960: proceedings of a conference organized by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, Sept. 8-10, 2001, keynote address by Leo Panitch, "Back to the Future: Contextualizing the Legacy."〕 Panitch attended a secular Jewish school named after the radical Polish-Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz. During a conference on Jewish radicalism in Winnipeg held in 2001, Panitch said the school grew out of the socialist fraternal mutual aid societies that Jewish immigrants had established. These included the Arbeiter Ring also known as the Workmen's Circle. Panitch told the conference that its first declaration of principles, adopted in 1901, began with the words: "The spirit of the Workmen’s Circle is freedom of thought and endeavour towards solidarity of the workers, faithfulness to the interests of its class in the struggle against oppression and exploitation." He added: "As such institutions multiplied and spread through the Jewish community, for a great many people and for a considerable number of decades to come, to be Jewish, especially in a city like Winnipeg, came to mean to be radical."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Panitch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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