Revolution today /
Susan Buck-Morss asks what does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a gl...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Haymarket Books,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Susan Buck-Morss asks what does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference, these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible. In a moving account that includes over 100 photos and images, Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grassroots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender and every other difference. |
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| Physical Description: | 100 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781608466795 1608466795 |