We Make Our Own History

Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - 'ya basta!' - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North. From this network of movements, new visions are emerging of a future beyond neoliberalism. We Make Our Own History responds to these visions by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. This book marks a break both with established social movement theory, and with those forms of Marxism which treat the practice of social movement organising as an unproblematic process. It shows how movements can develop from local conflicts to global struggles; how neoliberalism operates as a social movement from above, and how popular struggles can create new worlds from below.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745334813

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Laurence Cox is Associate Professor in Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. A long-time activist, he co-founded the social movement journal Interface and researches popular struggles for a better world. He is co-author of We Make Our Own History: Marxism, Social Movements and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2014) and co-editor of Revolution in the Air?: 1968 in the Global North (Pluto, 2018). With Alf Gunvald Nilsen he edits the Pluto Press series Social Movements / Activist Research.Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at University of Pretoria. He is the author of Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland among other books.

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'Readers will be vastly rewarded by this outstanding book and its understanding of the class struggles of social movements'

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Preface: About This Book1. ‘The This-Worldliness of Their Thought’: Social Movements and Theory2. ‘History Does Nothing’: The Primacy of Praxis in Movement Theorising3. ‘The Authors and the Actors of Their Own Drama’: A Marxist Theory of Social Movements4. ‘The Bourgeoisie, Historically, Has Played a Most Revolutionary Part’: Social Movements from Above and Below in Historical Capitalism5. ‘The Point Is to Change It’: Movements from Below against NeoliberalismNotesBibliographyIndex

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