Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has
become an "age of riots" as the struggle of people versus state and
capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar
Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and
its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the
strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence
in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race
and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice
campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover
connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in
a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global
economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed
from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper
context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social
unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this
valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their
struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.
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