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Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives
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9781629639437
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For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical transformation with capturing state power. The collapse of these statist projects from the 1970s led to a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But crisis has also opened space for rediscovering alternative society-centered, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. These have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and Rojava in Syria. They have been a key influence on movements from Occupy in United States, to the landless in Latin America, to anti-austerity struggles in Europe and Asia, to urban movements in Africa. Their lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and radical popular praxis. This path-breaking volume recovers this understanding of social transformation, long side-lined but now resurgent, like a seed in the soil that keeps breaking through and growing. It provides case studies with reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe, and includes a dossier of key texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists, insurgent unionists and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. Originating in an African summit of radical academics, struggle veterans and social movements, the book includes a preface from John Holloway.
- | Author: Lucien Van Der Walt, Kirk Helliker
- | Publisher: PM Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 23, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Political Science
- | ISBN-10: 1629639435
- | ISBN-13: 9781629639437
- Author:
- Lucien Van Der Walt, Kirk Helliker
- Publisher:
- PM Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 23, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Political Science
- ISBN-10:
- 1629639435
- ISBN-13:
- 9781629639437