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Coordinates of revolution, state, and uneven development in modern Mexico -- Mexican Revolution, primitive accumulation passive revolution -- Capital accumulation, state formation, and import substitution industrialization -- Neoliberalism and structural change within the global political economy of uneven development -- Intellectuals and the state : a critical social function or in the shadow of the state? -- The political economy of democratization and democratic transition -- Uneven agrarian development and the resistance of the EZLN -- Conclusion : permanent passive revolution? -- Epilogue : telescoping passive revolution

Unravelling Gramsci makes extensive use of Antonio Gramsci's writings, including his much- overlooked pre-prison journalism, prison letters, as well as his prison notebooks, to provide a fresh approach to understanding his contemporary relevance in the current neoliberal world order. Adam Morton examines in detail the themes of hegemony, passive revolution and uneven development to provide a useful way of analysing the contemporary global political economy, the project of neoliberalism, processes of state formation, and practices of resistance. The book explores the theoretical and practical limitations of how Gramsci's ideas can be used today, offering a broad insight into state formation and the international factors shaping hegemony within a capitalist framework

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Reading Gramsci -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: the North/ South Question of Uneven Development -- 2 Historicising Gramsci: Situating Ideas in and Beyond their Context -- 3 State Formation, Passive Revolution and the International System -- 4 A Return to Gramsci: ' The Moment of Hegemony' -- 5 Hegemony and World Order: Neo- Gramscian Perspectives and the Global Political Economy -- 6 The Global Political Economy of Uneven Development -- 7 Globalisation and Resistance: The Power of the Powerless -- 8 Conclusions against the Prison Notebooks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThis article analyses the political economy of Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'state space' with specific attention directed towards the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City, completed in 1938. The conditions of modernity can be generally related to the spatial ordering of urban landscapes within capital cities conjoining the specifics of national identity with imitative processes. Antonio Gramsci captured such sentiments through his understanding of the condition of 'passive revolution'. The key contribution of this article is to draw attention to forms ofeveryday passive revolution, recognising both cosmopolitan and vernacular aspects of modern architecture in relation to the Monument to the Revolution. A focus on the Monument to the Revolution thus reveals specific spatial practices of everyday passive revolution relevant to the codification of architecture and the political economy of modern state formation in Mexico. These issues are revealed, literally, as vital expressions in the architecture of everyday passive revolution in modern Mexico.

AbstractWithin the agenda of historical-materialist theory and practice Sociological Marxism has delivered a compelling perspective on how to explore and link the analysis of civil society, the state, and the economy within an explicit focus on class exploitation, emancipation, and rich ethnography. This article situates a major analysis of state formation, the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the growth of a broader Islamist movement in Turkey within the main current of Sociological Marxism. It does so in order to critically examine the rather bold revision of the theory of hegemony at the heart of Cihan Tuğal'sPassive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, which posits the separate interaction of political society, civil society and the state in theorising hegemonic politics in Turkey. My contention is that the revision of hegemony that this analysis offers and its state-theoretical commitments are deeply problematic due to the reliance on what I term 'ontological exteriority', meaning the treatment of state, civil society and the economy as always-alreadyseparatespheres. The focus of the critique then moves toward highlighting a frustrating lack of direct engagement with Antonio Gramsci's writings in this disquisition on hegemony and passive revolution, which has important political consequences. While praise for certain aspects of ethnographic and spatial analysis is raised, it is argued that any account of the reordering of hegemony and the restructuring of spatial-temporal contexts of capital accumulation through conditions of passive revolution also needs to draw from a more sophisticated state theory, a direct reading of Gramsci, and broader scalar analysis of spatial relations and uneven development under capitalism.