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Against Capital - Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency (Paperback)
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Against Capital - Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency (Paperback)
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'The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get
rid of it'. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed
at the start of Cliff Slaughter's latest book. Recognising the
importance of Istvan Meszaros's analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995)
and other books - of the historic, 'structural crisis' that has
taken capital into its stage of 'destructive self-reproduction',
Against Capital focuses on the crucial question of agency. Today,
when there are fundamental disjunctures between the globalised
economy, the means of social control and political and state
structures, what are we to make of Marx's conclusion that the
working class - capital's only structural antagonist - is 'the
gravedigger' of capitalism? And what are the implications for this
of the information revolution, the changing composition of the
working class, and the emergence of new forms of oppositional
organisation, with young people to the fore? Slaughter assembles
contributions by participants in recent movements in South Africa,
Britain, Spain, Mexico, countries in the former Soviet zone and -
in a major contribution from Yassamine Mather - the Middle East. He
offers an extended critique of 'vanguardist' conceptions such as
Trotsky's 'the crisis of humanity is reduced to the crisis of
working-class revolutionary leadership' and Kautsky's and the early
Lenin's formulation that socialist consciousness must be brought to
the working class 'from the outside'. Finally, Against Capital
examines the necessary theoretical foundations of a rebuilt
working-class movement, with special attention to the concepts of
class-consciousness and the relation between theory and practice.
This book is a compelling and distinctive contribution to recent
debates encompassing works such as Thomas Piketty's Capital in the
Twenty-First Century (2014) and Paul Mason's PostCapitalism (2015).
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