Author: Eric Blanc
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This groundbreaking study rediscovers the socialists of Tsarist Russia’s imperial borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics, the Russian Revolution, and Second International socialism. Based on archival research in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy is the first comparative account of the numerous socialist parties that fought for democracy and workers’ power across the entire span of the Russian Empire, from the factories of Warsaw, to the oil fields of Baku, to the autonomous parliament of Finland. By demonstrating that the Russian Revolution was far less Russian than commonly assumed, Eric Blanc challenges long-held assumptions of historians, sociologists, and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change under autocratic and democratic conditions. Listen to Lay Led Unions' episode on Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) featuring Eric Blanc. Also, listen to a panel discussion of Eric Blanc's groundbreaking new book , .
The Revolutionary Social Worker
Author: Dyann Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648799924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Revolutionary Social Worker Series by Dyann Ross is based on the idea that a revolutionary is a loving, nonviolent and justice seeking citizen. The book title could as readily be the revolutionary citizen. However, the title, The Revolutionary Social Worker, brings a particular focus of the book series to the role social workers can play in modelling and enabling revolutionary change. The books show how the practice of being a revolutionary can look in specific relationships and contexts, and from the 'inside' of a profession that has potentially revolutionary goals. While the focus is on social workers, the term is inclusive of any profession and any citizen who seeks to enact the love ethic. Internationally, peaceful revolutionaries have shown that lovelessness, violence and injustice can be transformed by love, nonviolence and justice. They understand that where there is love there is no oppression. The series shows how to apply the love ethic model in interpersonal and inter-species relationships, organisations, the community and in situations of ecological conflict.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648799924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Revolutionary Social Worker Series by Dyann Ross is based on the idea that a revolutionary is a loving, nonviolent and justice seeking citizen. The book title could as readily be the revolutionary citizen. However, the title, The Revolutionary Social Worker, brings a particular focus of the book series to the role social workers can play in modelling and enabling revolutionary change. The books show how the practice of being a revolutionary can look in specific relationships and contexts, and from the 'inside' of a profession that has potentially revolutionary goals. While the focus is on social workers, the term is inclusive of any profession and any citizen who seeks to enact the love ethic. Internationally, peaceful revolutionaries have shown that lovelessness, violence and injustice can be transformed by love, nonviolence and justice. They understand that where there is love there is no oppression. The series shows how to apply the love ethic model in interpersonal and inter-species relationships, organisations, the community and in situations of ecological conflict.
Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)
Author: Eric Blanc
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This groundbreaking study rediscovers the socialists of Tsarist Russia’s imperial borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics, the Russian Revolution, and Second International socialism. Based on archival research in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy is the first comparative account of the numerous socialist parties that fought for democracy and workers’ power across the entire span of the Russian Empire, from the factories of Warsaw, to the oil fields of Baku, to the autonomous parliament of Finland. By demonstrating that the Russian Revolution was far less Russian than commonly assumed, Eric Blanc challenges long-held assumptions of historians, sociologists, and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change under autocratic and democratic conditions. Listen to Lay Led Unions' episode on Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) featuring Eric Blanc. Also, listen to a panel discussion of Eric Blanc's groundbreaking new book , .
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This groundbreaking study rediscovers the socialists of Tsarist Russia’s imperial borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics, the Russian Revolution, and Second International socialism. Based on archival research in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy is the first comparative account of the numerous socialist parties that fought for democracy and workers’ power across the entire span of the Russian Empire, from the factories of Warsaw, to the oil fields of Baku, to the autonomous parliament of Finland. By demonstrating that the Russian Revolution was far less Russian than commonly assumed, Eric Blanc challenges long-held assumptions of historians, sociologists, and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change under autocratic and democratic conditions. Listen to Lay Led Unions' episode on Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) featuring Eric Blanc. Also, listen to a panel discussion of Eric Blanc's groundbreaking new book , .
The Revolutionary Social Worker
Author: Dyann Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648799900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Ross has written a book about ethics with a difference. The difference is love. The Revolutionary Social Worker Love Ethic Companion is a little book full of love informed ethical theories, ethico-legal principles and key anti-oppressive conventions, legislation and public statements. It is a companion to The Revolutionary Social Worker: The Love Ethic Model. Ross provides otherwise hard to find material about the ethical knowledge required by social workers in complex situations of violence, lovelessness and eco-injustice. In so doing, she packages the theories and principles in a readily accessible way for a quick how-to guide practice 'in situ'. Conventional ethical theories and ethico-legal principles for professional practice are presented and re-interpreted with love informed ideas. Seven new recommended ethico-legal principles are outlined to provide the basis for love ethic work. The Love Ethic Companion can be any professional's companion in practising with revolutionary love.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648799900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Ross has written a book about ethics with a difference. The difference is love. The Revolutionary Social Worker Love Ethic Companion is a little book full of love informed ethical theories, ethico-legal principles and key anti-oppressive conventions, legislation and public statements. It is a companion to The Revolutionary Social Worker: The Love Ethic Model. Ross provides otherwise hard to find material about the ethical knowledge required by social workers in complex situations of violence, lovelessness and eco-injustice. In so doing, she packages the theories and principles in a readily accessible way for a quick how-to guide practice 'in situ'. Conventional ethical theories and ethico-legal principles for professional practice are presented and re-interpreted with love informed ideas. Seven new recommended ethico-legal principles are outlined to provide the basis for love ethic work. The Love Ethic Companion can be any professional's companion in practising with revolutionary love.
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
Author: Colin Barker
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 164259489X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 164259489X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.
Radical Social Work
Author: Roy Bailey
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Laboring for the State
Author: Rachel Hynson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107188679
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107188679
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
Author: Marvin Surkin
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642598526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642598526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.
Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency
Author: James A. Geschwender
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521215848
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1977, provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The League, a black Marxist-Leninist movement that developed among automobile workers in Detroit, appeared shortly after the 1967 Detroit urban disorders. It spread from the automobile industry to other industries, and from Detroit to other urban areas, before an internal split led to its demise in 1971. The author bases his study on interviews with members of the League and on a detailed analysis of the movement's literature. He carefully examines the development of different ideologies within the League and the resultant conflict over tactics. Although the League was unified in its advocacy of black revolt, one wing of the League's leadership emphasised class analysis and supported a strategy of collaboration with white workers and white radicals. Another wing stressed national liberation struggles and rejected such collaboration in favour of an exclusively black movement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521215848
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1977, provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The League, a black Marxist-Leninist movement that developed among automobile workers in Detroit, appeared shortly after the 1967 Detroit urban disorders. It spread from the automobile industry to other industries, and from Detroit to other urban areas, before an internal split led to its demise in 1971. The author bases his study on interviews with members of the League and on a detailed analysis of the movement's literature. He carefully examines the development of different ideologies within the League and the resultant conflict over tactics. Although the League was unified in its advocacy of black revolt, one wing of the League's leadership emphasised class analysis and supported a strategy of collaboration with white workers and white radicals. Another wing stressed national liberation struggles and rejected such collaboration in favour of an exclusively black movement.
Revolutionary Social Transformation
Author: Paula Allman
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0897898036
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revolutionary Social Transformation focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together with Freire's and Gramsci's ideas. The author suggests that these are necessary ingredients for authentic social transformation as well as a basis for rekindling hope for a veritable democratic future. The author employs both a language of critique and a language of possibility to argue that the process of social transformation must be inherently educational. Social transformation begins in prefigurative, preparatory projects and continues even after the creation of a new social formation. She also argues that Marx's materialist theory of consciousness--his theory of critical praxis--informs the thinking of both Freire and Gramsci. The ideas of Freire and Gramsci together with Marx's dialectical conceptualization of capitalism provide essential ingredients for the type of critical theory of educational praxis necessary for authentic social transformation. These ingredients also indicate how local transformative efforts can be linked to the global project for social transformation and ultimately the ending of all oppression.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0897898036
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revolutionary Social Transformation focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together with Freire's and Gramsci's ideas. The author suggests that these are necessary ingredients for authentic social transformation as well as a basis for rekindling hope for a veritable democratic future. The author employs both a language of critique and a language of possibility to argue that the process of social transformation must be inherently educational. Social transformation begins in prefigurative, preparatory projects and continues even after the creation of a new social formation. She also argues that Marx's materialist theory of consciousness--his theory of critical praxis--informs the thinking of both Freire and Gramsci. The ideas of Freire and Gramsci together with Marx's dialectical conceptualization of capitalism provide essential ingredients for the type of critical theory of educational praxis necessary for authentic social transformation. These ingredients also indicate how local transformative efforts can be linked to the global project for social transformation and ultimately the ending of all oppression.
Workers of the World, Enjoy!
Author: Kenneth H. Tucker
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137652
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model for understanding social change in our image-saturated and aesthetically charged world. As emotional and artistic images inform our perceptions and evaluation of politics, art and performance often provide new and creative ways of understanding self and society. Spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Workers of the World, Enjoy! uses examples from major social movements that have dramatically changed the dominant capitalist society—often in the name of labor. Tucker investigates how class and culture develop as he raises questions about what it means for public life and social movements when politics and drama come together. Tucker catalogues how aesthetic politics influences social movements—from French Revolutionary syndicalism and fascism to the selling of the President and the street theater of the contemporary global justice movement. He also discusses the work of political theorists including Jurgen Habermas, Jeffrey Alexander, and Nancy Fraser to critique the ways public sphere has been studied.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137652
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model for understanding social change in our image-saturated and aesthetically charged world. As emotional and artistic images inform our perceptions and evaluation of politics, art and performance often provide new and creative ways of understanding self and society. Spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Workers of the World, Enjoy! uses examples from major social movements that have dramatically changed the dominant capitalist society—often in the name of labor. Tucker investigates how class and culture develop as he raises questions about what it means for public life and social movements when politics and drama come together. Tucker catalogues how aesthetic politics influences social movements—from French Revolutionary syndicalism and fascism to the selling of the President and the street theater of the contemporary global justice movement. He also discusses the work of political theorists including Jurgen Habermas, Jeffrey Alexander, and Nancy Fraser to critique the ways public sphere has been studied.