This is a new, updated edition of John Holloway's acclaimed guide to the politics of revolution and protest. The wave of political demonstrations since Seattle have crystallised a new trend in left-wing politics. Modern protest movements are grounding their actions in both Marxism and Anarchism, fighting for radical social change in terms that have nothing to do with the taking of state power. This is in clear opposition to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution which centres on taking state power. In this book, John Holloway asks how we can reformulate our understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power. After a century of failed attempts by revolutionary and reformist movements to bring about radical social change, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. John Holloway opens up the theoretical debate, reposing some of the basic concepts of Marxism in a critical development of the subversive Marxist tradition represented by Adorno, Bloch and Lukacs, amongst others, and grounded in a rethinking of Marx's concept of 'fetishisation'-- how doing is transformed into being.
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'This is a refreshing, thought-provoking book. ... A must read for every student and practitioner of political science.' --USI Journal
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John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the BenemÈrita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico. He has written widely on Marxist theory. His publications include Zapatista! Rethinking Revolution in Mexico (co-editor, Pluto, 1998), Open Marxism: Emancipating Marx (co-editor, Pluto, 1995), and Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money (co-editor, Palgrave, 1994).
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world without taking power, autonomist theory, fetishised forms, dependence upon labour, aspiration towards totality, binary antagonism, social flow, taking state power, genetic criticism, collective flow, bourgeois theory, personal bondage, historic necessity, abstract labour, capitalist social relations, dead labour, objective contradictions, contact with the state, revolutionary organisation, capitalist reproduction, paradigmatic approach, living labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Rosa Luxemburg, Communist Parties, Second International New!
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world without taking power, autonomist theory, fetishised forms, dependence upon labour, aspiration towards totality, binary antagonism, social flow, taking state power, genetic criticism, collective flow, bourgeois theory, personal bondage, historic necessity, abstract labour, capitalist social relations, dead labour, objective contradictions, contact with the state, revolutionary organisation, capitalist reproduction, paradigmatic approach, living labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Rosa Luxemburg, Communist Parties, Second International New!
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- The Principle of Hope: Three-volume set (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Ernst Bloch on 4 pages
- Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money by Werner Bonefeld in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- State and Capital: A Marxist Debate by John Holloway in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Right To Be Lazy (Revolutionary Classics) by Paul Lafargue on page 24, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of Change: Globalization, Ideology and Critique by Werner Bonefeld in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination (Studies in European Culture and History) by Susan McManus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Resisting Ethics by Scott Schaffer in Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Antonio Negri - Volume One: Resistance in Practice (v. 1) by Timothy Murphy in Back Matter
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