We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism - Couverture souple

Cox, Laurence; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745334814 ISBN 13 : 9780745334813

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2014

Synopsis

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - "ya basta!" - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North. From this network of movements, new visions are emerging of a future beyond neoliberalism. We make our own History responds to these visions by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. This book marks a break both with established social movement theory, and with those forms of Marxism which treat the practice of social movement organising as an unproblematic process. It shows how movements can develop from local conflicts to global struggles; how neoliberalism operates as a social movement from above, and how popular struggles can create new worlds from below.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laurence Cox is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. A long-time activist, he co-founded the social movement journal Interface and researches popular struggles for a better world. He is co-author of We Make Our Own History: Marxism, Social Movements and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2014) and co-editor of Revolution in the Air?: 1968 in the Global North (Pluto, 2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745334814
• ISBN 13: 9780745334813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible