Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives Van Der Walt Lucien
Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives Van Der Walt Lucien For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing…
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Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives Van Der Walt Lucien
For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing state power.The collapse of statist projects from the 1970s fostered both neo-liberalism and a global crisis of left and working-class politics. This resurgent alternative has influenced the Zapatistas in Mexico, Rojava in Syria, Occupy, and independent unions and struggles worldwide around austerity, land, and the city. But it also opened space for rediscovering democratic, society-centered and anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state.
It includes a dossier of texts from a century of Its lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and popular praxis.This pathbreaking volume helps recover this once sidelined politics, with a focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe.