Change the World Without Taking Power - Old Edition: The Meaning of Revolution Today

Holloway, John

ISBN 10: 0745318630 / ISBN 13: 9780745318639

Editore: Pluto Press, 2002

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Riassunto:

The series of demonstrations since Seattle have crystallised 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. 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. The struggle for radical change, Holloway argues, far from being marginalised, is becoming more and more embedded in our everyday lives. Revolution today must be understood as a question, not as an answer.

Informazioni sugli autori:

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).

John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemirita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico. His publications include Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010), Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto, 2005), Zapatista! Rethinking Revolution in Mexico (co-editor, Pluto, 1998) and Global Capital, National State and The Politics of Money (co-editor, 1994).

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Titolo: Change the World Without Taking Power - Old ...
Casa editrice: Pluto Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good