Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today - Couverture souple

Holloway, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745318630 ISBN 13 : 9780745318639

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2002

Synopsis

The series of demonstrations since Seattle have crystallized a new trend in left-wing politics. Popular support across the world for the Zapatista uprising and the enthusiasm which it has inspired has led to new types of protest movement that ground their actions on both Marxism and Anarchism. These movements are 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. 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 "fetishization" - how doing is transfomed into being. The struggle for radical change, Holloway argues, is becoming more embedded in our everyday lives. Revolution today must be understood as a question, not as an answer.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745318630
• ISBN 13: 9780745318639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible