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Change the World Without Taking Power
John Holloway
其他書名
The Meaning of Revolution Today
出版
Pluto Press
, 2002-03-20
主題
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Political Science / Political Freedom
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Anarchism
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0745318649
9780745318646
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w7i4AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.