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The Antagonistic Principle : Marxism and Political Action / Massimo Modonesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Modonesi, Massimo.
- Series:
- Historical Materialism Book Series 182.
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v. 182
- Standardized Title:
- Principio antagonista. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Passive resistance.
- Socialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.
- Summary:
- In this important contribution to political theory, Massimo Modonesi develops the thesis that a Marxist theory of political action can be developed from the notion of antagonism, defined as a distinctive feature of struggle and of the political experience of insubordination. The author argues this central idea with close reference to the concept of class struggle. He advances a theoretical proposal based on the triad subalternity-antagonism-autonomy, as well as the uneven and combined character of the processes of political subjectification. At the center of this triad, the concept of antagonism stands out as a logical principle and the core of a Marxist theory of political action. At the same time, subalternism reappears frequently, as the counter-pole of antagonistic activation and autonomous practices, and as the root of what Antonio Gramsci calls ‘passive revolutions’.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Coordinates of a Marxist Theory of Political Action
- Notes on the Gramscian Concept of Subaltern Classes
- Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy
- Antagonism as Principle
- Subalternisation and Passive Revolution
- Methodological Questions: Conceptualisation and Operationalisation
- Uses, Omissions, and Distortions in the Concept of Passive Revolution in Latin America
- The End of Progressive Hegemony and the Regressive Turn in Latin America: the End of a Cycle
- Post-progressivism and Emancipatory Horizons in Latin America by Massimo Modonesi and Maristella Svampa
- The Political Subjectivation of Social Movements by Sergio Tamayo
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-38826-5
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004388260 DOI
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