Revolution and Its Alternatives : : Other Marxisms, Other Empowerments, Other Priorities / / Tom Brass.

• Author: Brass, Tom.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences 129.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages).

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is – but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still transferring, his/her support to the radical politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum. The combination of on the one hand a globally expanding industrial reserve army, generating ever more intense competition in the labour markets of capitalism, and on the other the endorsement by many on the left not of class but rather of non-class identities espoused by the ‘new’ populist postmodernism, has fuelled what can only be described as a perfect storm, politically speaking.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- Revolutionary/Counter-revolutionary Practice/Theory -- Revolution in Practice -- Revolution in Theory -- Refusing Revolution, Empowering Counter-revolution -- Other Marxisms, Other Priorities/Identities -- The (Revolutionary) Path Not Taken -- Avoiding Revolution: A Return to Patronage -- Misunderstanding Revolution: (Re-)Defining Labour Coercion? -- Other Priorities, Other Identities: Unmasking the Subaltern -- Alternatives to Revolution? -- Betraying Revolution (Again) -- Viva La Revolución? Eric Hobsbawm on Peasants -- Marxism, or Postmodern Precursor? John Berger on Peasants -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.