Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment write by Loren Goldner. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies— Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism— still with us, however different and diffuse in form. They are a contribution to the worldwide Marx renaissance of recent decades which has helped clear away the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, not to mention of the ‘real existing socialism’ of the Soviet Union and its bastard progeny. These revolutionary predecessors did not fail because ‘they had the wrong ideas’; in contrast to today, they were merely embedded in an earlier dynamic where capitalism, globally, was not yet fully dominant. The cases of Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia allow us to measure the distance between their epoch and our own, and to clear away their problematic legacies.
The Science and Passion of Communism
The Science and Passion of Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science and Passion of Communism write by Amadeo Bordiga. This book was released on 2020-08-10. The Science and Passion of Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.
The Age of Counter-Revolution
The Age of Counter-Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Counter-Revolution write by Jamie Allinson. This book was released on 2022-05-26. The Age of Counter-Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the Arab Spring, seen as a series counter-revolutions, rather than failed revolutions, in six Arab countries.
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism and the Limits of Desire write by John Roberts. This book was released on 2021-08-12. Capitalism and the Limits of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressing Spinoza's perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”, Capitalism and the Limits of Desire examines the ways in which self-love as the care of the self has become intertwined with self-love as the pursuit of pleasure. With ongoing austerity and misery for so many, why does capitalism seem to be so insurmountable, so impossible to move beyond? John Roberts offers a compelling response: it is because we love the love of self that capitalism enables, even though it brings anxiety and self-scrutiny. Capitalism in the form of commodities, and, more importantly, the online platforms through which we express ourselves, has become so much of who we are, of how we define self-love as self-pleasure that it is difficult to imagine ourselves outside of it. Roberts contends that disentangling ourselves from this collapsing of self into capitalism is possible and that understanding the insidious nature of capitalist thinking even when it comes to our deepest pleasures is the starting point. Using early and late Marx, Lacan's distinction between pleasure and desire and the recent debate on perfectionism (Hurka) as his guides, Roberts lays out a way for individuals to move forward and forge a link between self and desire outside the oppressive demands of platform capitalism.
Insurgent Universality
Insurgent Universality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insurgent Universality write by Massimiliano Tomba. This book was released on 2019-05-16. Insurgent Universality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among human rights advocates, is exhausted. It's long past time to reconsider the principles on which Western economic and political norms rest. This book advocates for a tradition of political universality as an alternative to the juridical universalism of the Declaration. Insurgent universality isn't based on the idea that we all share some common humanity but, rather, on the democratic excess by which people disrupt and reject an existing political and economic order. Going beyond the constitutional armor of the representative state, it brings into play a plurality of powers to which citizens have access, not through the funnel of national citizenship but in daily political practice. We can look to recent history to see various experiments in cooperative and insurgent democracy: the Indignados in Spain, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Zapatistas in Mexico, and, going further back, the Paris Commune, the 1917 peasant revolts during the Russian Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution. This book argues that these movements belong to the common legacy of insurgent universality, which is characterized by alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. Massimiliano Tomba examines these events to show what they could have been and what they can still be. As such he explores how their common legacy can be reactivated. Insurgent Universality analyzes the manifestos and declarations that came out of these experiments considering them as collective works of an alternative canon of political theory that challenges the great names of the Western pantheon of political thought and builds bridges between European and non-European political and social experiments.
