Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment

Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment PDF Author: Loren Goldner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004325824
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies—Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism , and anti-imperialism— still with us, if diffusely. They attempt to overcome the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, and of “real existing socialism”, in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.

Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment

Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment PDF Author: Loren Goldner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004325824
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies—Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism , and anti-imperialism— still with us, if diffusely. They attempt to overcome the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, and of “real existing socialism”, in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.

The Science and Passion of Communism

The Science and Passion of Communism PDF Author: Amadeo Bordiga
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004421653
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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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.

Vanguard of Retrogression

Vanguard of Retrogression PDF Author: Loren Goldner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
The essays in this book were written "against the grain" of much of the ideology of the past 50 years, that might be summarized with the term "middle-class radicalism." While such middle-class radicalism may have seemed to overlap with the Marxian project of communism, they are as ultimately opposed as Stirner and Bakunin on one hand and Marx and Luxemburg on the other.

Herman Melville

Herman Melville PDF Author: Loren Goldner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970030825
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Book Description
Herman Melville was a grand bourgeois, with aristocratic overtones, whose life path abruptly turned downward at 13 with the bankruptcy, madness, and death of his father in 1831. This new study reveals how Melville's literary works echo the idology of his day.

Che Guevara

Che Guevara PDF Author: H. Yaffe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230233872
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Book Description
Che Guevara remains an iconic figure, four decades after his death. Yet his most significant contribution - his work as a member of the Cuban government - is rarely discussed. This book explores his impact on Cuba's economy, through fascinating new archival material and interviews.

Latin America's Radical Left

Latin America's Radical Left PDF Author: Aldo Marchesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107177715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Book Description
This book examines a generation of leftist militants who in the 1960s advocated revolutionary violence for social change in South America.

The Age of Counter-Revolution

The Age of Counter-Revolution PDF Author: Jamie Allinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Book Description
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 PDF Author: John Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350214965
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Book Description
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.

Critical Approaches to International Relations

Critical Approaches to International Relations PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004470506
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Book Description
Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates covers the most influential approaches within critical IR scholarship with a particular focus on historical heritage and philosophical roots they built upon and current directions of research they propose.

Insurgent Universality

Insurgent Universality PDF Author: Massimiliano Tomba
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190883103
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
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.