Antagonistic Principle

Massimo Modonesi is Professor and Chair of the Political and Social Sciences Faculty at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the author of twelve books on social and political movements in Latin-America and on Marxist political theory. In English his most recent published work is Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy. Constructing the Political Subject (Pluto, 2014). He is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Gramsci Society.

“[The Antagonistic Principle] opens up an inspiring path to use a Gramscian theoretical framework in the study of contemporary social movements.”—Nicolò Pennucci, International Gramsci Journal

• Table of Contents Introduction Part OneCoordinates of a Marxist Theory of Political Action Notes on the Gramscian Concept of Subaltern Classes Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy Antagonism as Principle Subalternisation and Passive Revolution Part TwoMethodological Questions Uses, Omissions, and Distortions in the Concept of Passive Revolution in Latin America The End of Progressive Hegemony and the Regressive Turn in Latin America: The End of a Cycle Post-progressivism and Emancipatory Horizons in Latin America Afterword - Sergio Tamayo Bibliography