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Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement (Hardcover)
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Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement (Hardcover)
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Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement is a critical,
participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the
Occupy Wall Street movement. John Leveille spent over nine months
with Occupy Philadelphia as the members organized and carried out
their protests. This book describes and analyzes the rise, the
organization, and the demise of this group. The important events
and activities of Occupy Philadelphia are discussed and dissected,
with specific attention given to the confusions and chaos that
permeated this group, and Occupy Wall Street more generally, which
contributed to its rather rapid decline. A revisionist Marxism,
informed loosely by the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, is
used here to understand and explain the happenings of this protest
group. The theory provides an epistemological and methodological
framework for this study, and it is also used to account for the
observed behaviors. Leveille argues that an essential conflict
between humanism and the forces of rational capitalism lies at the
heart of this protest movement. This conflict contributed both to
the rise of Occupy and to its operations. It was manifested in two
intersecting ways. One of these concerns the destabilization of the
self in contemporary capitalism, which provided fuel for the
movement. The second revolves around the limited abilities of
existing institutional arrangements to manage or channel the
essential conflicts related to values that are produced by rational
capitalism. Ultimately, Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement
makes a controversial claim that the movement was as much, if not
more, about democracy, morality, and the organization and
experience of the self and of social life as it was about economic
matters. The argument is made that Occupy was as much an expressive
movement as it was an instrumental one. It was expressing
contradictions produced by capitalism through extra-institutional
means because the existing institutional arrangements have been and
continue to be unable to manage or contain them.
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