Author: Chris Bambery Publisher: ISBN: 9781905192151 Category : Communists Languages : en Pages : 0
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Gramsci was the intellectual driving force of early Italian Communism. Jailed by Mussolini and with collapsing health, he laboured to produce his famous prison notebooks under the eye of the censor. His ideas - particularly his concept of hegemony - are still highly influential today. Chris Bambery provides an accessible and lively introduction to the man, his world and his ideas.
Author: Siobhan Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9781909026773 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 64
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Eleanor Marx was an important figure in the early British socialist movement. On top of being friends with the likes of William Morris and George Bernard Shaw, she edited many of her father Karl's works, wrote on 'The Woman Question' and led militant workers on strike during the New Unionism of the 1880s. This new Rebel's Guide takes us to the heart of her passionate revolutionary lie, drawing out her key contributions, the events that shaped her and the relevance of her battles to those we face today.
Author: Judith Orr Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 68
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Judith Orr traces the roots of women's oppression and shows why the way in which society is organised continues to leave most ordinary women - and men - losing out.
Author: Walter L. Adamson Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520050570 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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As a result of his inquiry into the nature of class, culture, and the state, Antonio Gramsci became one of the most influential Marxist theorists. Hegemony and Revolution is the first full-fledged study of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks in the light of his pre-prison career as a socialist and communist militant and a highly original Marxist intellectual. Walter Adamson shows how Gramsci's concepts of revolution grew out of his experience with the Turin worker councils of 1919-1920 as well as his experience combatting the Fascist movement.For Gramsci, revolution meant the steady ascension of a mass-based, educated, and organized "collective will," in which the final seizure of power would be the climax of a broader educative process. Success depended on countering not just the coercive power of the existing economic and political order but also the cultural hegemony of the state. A "counter-hegemony" for Gramsci required the leadership of an organized political party, but at its core lay his conviction that the common people were capable of self-enlightenment and could produce an alternative conception of the world that challenged the prevailing hegemonic culture.Adamson shows how these ideas, which Gramsci developed prior to his imprisonment, led him to a highly original concept of "subaltern" class movements that cohere not just on the basis of economic interest but by virtue of religious, ideological, regional, folkloric, and other sorts of cultural ties as well. These ideas of Gramsci have had enormous influence on a wide variety of subsequent cultural theories including postcolonialism and Foucault-style analyses of discursive practices.
Author: Raymond A. Belliotti Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1683933702 Category : Italy Languages : en Pages : 269
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Belliotti analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, while distinctively interpreting the lives and ideologies of Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano.
Author: Robin Jacobitz Publisher: tredition ISBN: 3347356772 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 721
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Kant and the Enlightenment 1500 to 1800 is an interesting read even for philosophical nonprofessionals because ... - the philosophy of the Enlightenment is presented in comprehensible language and embedded in the 300-year struggle for the liberation of the bourgeoisie against feudalism, - the importance of reason in our knowledge, in the sciences, and in the democratic republic is elaborated based on Kant's writings, - in times of threat with Kant's philosophy a reassurance can be made regarding the foundations of the democratic republic and the worldwide spread of this form of government since the First French Republic, - Kant's "categorical imperative" must be reinterpreted as a fundamental political norm of the democratic republic, if his ethics is understood as a "German theory of the French Revolution" (Marx), - countering the postmodern discrediting of the philosophy of history by placing the current struggle for the democratic republic in the context of Kant's goal of history, which called for a democratically organized and federally unified humanity on the grounds of reason.
Author: Mark Engler Publisher: Bold Type Books ISBN: 1568585144 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 369
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There is a craft to uprising -- and this craft can change the world From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. With incisive insights from contemporary activists, as well as fresh revelations about the work of groundbreaking figures such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, and Frances Fox Piven, the Englers show how people with few resources and little conventional influence are engineering the upheavals that are reshaping contemporary politics. Nonviolence is usually seen simply as a philosophy or moral code. This Is an Uprising shows how it can instead be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, we pass up the chance to truly understand how social transformation happens.
Author: Peter Mayo Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9781444324013 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 168
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Through a series of writings from international scholars,Gramsci and Educational Thought pays tribute to theeducational influence of Antonio Gramsci, considered one of thegreatest social thinkers and political theorists of the 20thcentury. Represents sound social theory and a broad application andreinvention of Gramsci’s ideas Covers important areas such as language and education,community education, and social work education Features perspectives from different geographical contexts
Author: Sally Campbell Publisher: Trentham Books ISBN: 9781905192786 Category : Communists Languages : en Pages : 59
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Rosa Luxemburg was one of the key leaders of the German revolutionary left until her murder by right-wing militiamen in 1919 at the height of the attempted revolution. A young, Polish, Jewish woman, she had fearlessly taken on the theoretical giants of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in defence of revolutionary Marxism. This Rebel's Guide puts forward Luxemburg's case. She was an orator, teacher and leader who stood in the classical Marxist tradition - and an all-too-often overlooked revolutionary.
Author: Ian McKay Publisher: Between the Lines ISBN: 1771135360 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
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In this brilliant and thoroughly engaging work Ian McKay sets out to revamp the history of Canadian socialism. Drawing on models of left politics in Marx and Gramsci, he outlines a fresh agenda for exploration of the Canadian left. In rejecting the usual paths of sectarian or sentimental histories, McKay draws on contemporary cultural theory to argue for an inventive strategy of "reconnaissance." This important, groundbreaking work combines the highest standards of scholarship, and a broad knowledge of current debates in the field. Rebels, Reds, Radicalsis the introduction to McKay's definitive multi-volume work on the history of Canadian socialism (volume one, Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920is now available).
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