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Politics at a Distance from the State - Radical and African Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Politics at a Distance from the State - Radical and African Perspectives (Hardcover)
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For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements
identified radical transformation with capturing state power. The
collapse of these statist projects from the 1970s led to a global
crisis of left and working class politics. But crisis has also
opened space for rediscovering alternative society-centred,
anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance
from the state. These have registered important successes in
practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and Rojava in Syria.
They have been a key influence on movements from Occupy in United
States, to the landless in Latin America, to anti-austerity
struggles in Europe and Asia, to urban movements in Africa. Their
lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism,
philosophers like Alain Badiou, and radical popular praxis. This
path-breaking volume recovers this understanding of social
transformation, long side-lined but now resurgent, like a seed in
the soil that keeps breaking through and growing. It provides case
studies with reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe, and includes a
dossier of key texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists,
insurgent unionists and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.
Originating in an African summit of radical academics, struggle
veterans and social movements, the book includes a preface from
John Holloway. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies,
with the addition of a new dossier on the history and voices of a
century of politics at a distance from the state in South Africa.
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