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Radical Left and Social Transformation
Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
2 113 kr
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This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies, tactics, and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present, organizing "the people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together, in diverse ways that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple planes, from the tension between migrants and citizen workers, to the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class, to the contradictions operating across international versus domestic dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine its understanding of political consciousness, identity, ideology, and institutions, as they relate to Marxian analysis and various threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for understanding what the radical Left is up against and how problematic barriers might be torn down, thus disrupting unhelpful binaries such as state versus capital, national versus international, worker versus migrant, activist versus candidate, and freedom versus necessity.This book was originally published as a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse.
Radical Left and Social Transformation
Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
618 kr
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This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies, tactics, and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present, organizing "the people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together, in diverse ways that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple planes, from the tension between migrants and citizen workers, to the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class, to the contradictions operating across international versus domestic dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine its understanding of political consciousness, identity, ideology, and institutions, as they relate to Marxian analysis and various threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for understanding what the radical Left is up against and how problematic barriers might be torn down, thus disrupting unhelpful binaries such as state versus capital, national versus international, worker versus migrant, activist versus candidate, and freedom versus necessity.This book was originally published as a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse.
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Anxiety as a Weapon reframes anxiety not as a personal failing but as a response to the deep social, economic, and political instabilities of our time. Challenging a culture that promotes self-blame and individual solutions to stress – from therapy apps to mindfulness courses – this book exposes how systemic forces like precarious labour, austerity, and social disconnection fuel widespread psychological and emotional distress. Rather than diagnosing individuals as defective, it exposes how dominant narratives, technologies, and institutions isolate and shame people, pushing them to internalize suffering and acquiesce in the commodification of self-care. Drawing on historical and empirical research, it introduces the concept of "anxious solidarity": a powerful, collective response to the atomizing pressures of neoliberal capitalism. By tracing the structural roots of anxiety and critiquing the mainstream mental health solutions on offer, the book provides a framework for transforming anxiousness into a means for connection, resistance, and widespread social change. It is both a critique and a call to action.