Suchergebnisse

Democratic Vanguardism explores the origins, development, and implication of the United States' policy after 9/11 to promote democracy by force and thereby advance its national security. It explores disputes among political theorists, elected statesmen, and public intellectuals to help enrich our understanding of this most fraught period in American foreign relations, and it provides a novel account on the discourse of historical teleology that underpinned the Bush Doctrine.

Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity -- The construction of minjung -- Anticommunism and North Korea -- Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang -- The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere -- Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest -- The alliance between labor and intellectuals -- "To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism -- The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature -- Conclusion : the minjung movement as history

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- I Introduction to the Issues -- 1 NEGATIVITY AND REVOLUTION: ADORNO AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM -- 2 WHY ADORNO? -- 3 PIED PIPERS AND POLYMATHS: ADORNO'S CRITIQUE OF PRAXISISM -- II Negative Dialectics versus Neo-Structuralism -- 4 ANTAGONISM AND DIFFERENCE: NEGATIVE DIALECTICS AND POST-STRUCTURALISM IN VIEW OF THE CRITIQUE OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- 5 ADORNO AND POST-VANGUARDISM -- 6 NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE AUTONOMISM. OR WHY ADORNO? PART 2 -- III Emancipation and the Critique of Totality -- 7 ADORNO: THE CONCEPTUAL PRISON OF THE SUBJECT, POLITICAL FETISHISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE -- 8 EMANCIPATORY PRAXIS AND CONCEPTUALITY IN ADORNO -- IV The Politics of Sexuality and Art -- 9 ADORNO, NON-IDENTITY, SEXUALITY -- 10 SOLIDARITY WITH THE FALL OF METAPHYSICS: NEGATIVITY AND HOPE -- 11 MIMESIS AND DISTANCE: ARTS AND THE SOCIAL IN ADORNO'S THOUGHT -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.

Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Marxism, Democracy, and Eurocommunism -- The Historical Break -- Four Marxist Strategies -- Democracy or Statism? -- The Rise of Eurocommunism -- 2 Beyond Vanguardism: The "Third Road" Strategy -- The Eclipse of the Leninist Party -- The Departure from Past Myths -- A Mediterranean Structural Reformism -- The Politics of the Transition -- 3 The PCI: A Party of Modernization? -- Capitalism and Rationalization -- Crisis, Immobilism, and Opposition -- The PCI's Rationalizing Ideology -- New Strategic Dilemmas -- An Economistic Model -- 4 The Limits of Structural Reformism -- Legitimation and the State -- Class Struggle or Corporatism? -- The Logic of Institutionalization -- A Party of a New Type -- What Kind of Democracy? -- 5 A Return to Social Democracy? -- Two Converging Traditions -- Eurocommunism, Crisis, and Transition -- Epilogue: Gramsci and Eurocommunism -- From Gramsci to Berlinguer -- Gramscian Strategy and the State -- Enter Togliatti -- Structural Reformism or Socialism? -- Notes -- Index.

Introduction José Pedro Zúquete -- SECTION I Conceptual/Empirical Issues -- 1. Left-wing Extremism: the conceptual dimension Uwe Backes -- 2. The Evolution of Left-Wing Extremism Garth Davies and Vanja Zdjelar -- 3. Radicalization and Left-Wing Extremism Katharina Krüsselmann and Daan Weggemans -- 4. Women in Left-Wing Extremism Irina Jugl and Daniel Kohler -- 5. Vanguardism and Left-Wing Extremism Phillip W. Gray -- 6. Left-Wing Extremism and Violence Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- 7. Guerrilla and Cognitive Warfare in Transnational Leftwing Extremism Josh Vandiver -- 8. The Measurement of Left-Wing Extremist Attitudes Sebastian Jungkunz -- 9. Research Techniques in the Study of Left-Wing Extremism Arije Antinori -- SECTION II Manifestations of Left-Wing Extremism -- Europe -- 10. Germany Eckhard Jesse -- 11. France Isabelle Sommier -- 12. United Kingdom Luke March -- 13. Greece Lamprini Rori and Vasiliki Georgiadou -- 14. Spain Carles Viñas -- 15. Italy Francesco Marone -- 16. Scandinavia Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt, Magnus Wennerhag.

Pt. 1. Some thoughts on the origins of our current predicament. Manners, deference, and private property: or, elements for a general theory of hierarchy -- The very idea of consumption: desire, phantasms, and the aesthetics of destruction from medieval times to the present -- Turning modes of production inside-out: or, why capitalism is a transformation fo slavery (short version) -- Fetishism as social creativity: or, fetishes are gods in the process of construction -- pt. 2. Provisional autonomous zone: dilemmas of authority in rural Madagascar. Provisional autonomous zone: or, the ghost-state in Madagascar -- Dancing with corpses resonsidered: an interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madigascar) -- Love magic and political morality in central Madagascar, 1875-1990 -- Oppression -- pt. 3. Direct action, direct democracy, and social theory. The twilight of vanguardism -- Social theory as science and utopia: or, does the prospect of a general sociological theory still mean anything in an age of globalization? -- There never was a west: or, democracy emerges from the spaces in between -- On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Macpherson's Project -- Chapter 1: Overview of Macpherson's Works -- Synopses of Macpherson's Books -- Appendix: Possessive Individualism's Critics -- References -- Chapter 2: Macpherson and Liberal Democracy -- Liberal Democracy -- Individualism -- More on Macpherson's Liberal-Democratic Credentials -- Vanguardism -- References -- Chapter 3: Macpherson's Socialism -- Egalitarianism -- Anti-Capitalism -- Institutions -- An Ideological Problem -- Political Action -- Realism and Utopianism -- Appendix: Macpherson and Marxism -- References -- Part II: Questions of Theory -- Introduction to Part II -- Reference -- Chapter 4: Political Theory and Political Philosophy -- Philosophy -- Macpherson as a Crypto Philosopher -- Ethics and Morality -- Ontology -- Does Macpherson Need Philosophy? -- Advantages to Philosophical Agnosticism -- References -- Chapter 5: Core Themes -- True and False Needs -- Truly Human Powers -- Positive Liberty -- False Consciousness -- Self-Ownership -- Individuals and Society -- Historicism -- Foundationalism -- References -- Part III: Contemporary Challenges -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 6: Neoliberalism -- Subjectivism -- Pleonexia -- All-Encompassing Marketization -- Individual Freedom -- Incentives -- Accommodating Bad People -- Democracy -- Efficiency -- Confronting Neoliberalism -- References -- Chapter 7: Global Problems -- Globalization -- Macpherson's Theories and Globalization -- Environmental Degradation -- References -- Chapter 8: Intellectual Property -- The Globalization of Intellectual Property -- Macpherson on Property -- Counter-Arguments -- Concluding Comment -- References -- Chapter 9: Racism and Sexism -- Potentials in Liberal Democracy -- Market Society Versus Developmental Democracy -- References -- Chapter 10: Urban Challenges.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR -- Part 1 Between the Fin-de-Siècle and the Interwar Period -- 1 Czech Motherhood and Fin-de-Siècle Visual Culture -- Maternal Beauty and Duty -- The Czech National Madonna in Public Art -- The Scientific Mother -- Public Health Campaigns and the Healthy Mother -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 British-Yugoslav Lesbian Networks During and After the Great War -- Researching Lesbian Networks -- Lesbian History and Scottish Women's Hospitals in the Great War -- Negotiating 'Sapphic Modernities' Between Britain and Serbia -- After the War: Rojc, Onslow and the Yugoslav Art Scene -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Creating 'New Soviet Women' in Armenia? Gender and Tradition in the Early Soviet South Caucasus -- Conceptualizing and Historicizing Gender in 'the Caucasus' -- Narrating Soviet Armenia During the Soviet Period -- Soviet Women of the (Near) East -- The Veil of Unveiling -- Gender, Refugees and Relief -- Motherhood, Family, Nation -- Domesticity, Work and Tradition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2 Gender Regimes of Revolution and War -- 4 Mothers of a New World: Maternity and Culture in the Soviet Period -- Mothers to All, Mothers to None -- Workers and Mothers -- Return to the Motherland -- Motherhood and Terror -- Dismantling the Myth -- After the Fall -- Notes -- 5 Life and Fate: Race, Nationality, Class and Gender in Wartime Poland -- Nazi Policy Towards the People of Poland -- Soviet Policy Towards the People of Poland -- Unsanctioned Sexual Violence -- Survival, Resistance and Collaboration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Female Red Army Soldiers in World War II and Beyond -- Naivety and Vanguardism: Contemporaneous Testimonies by Female Soldiers.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: `Practical Critical Activity' and the Conception of Revolutionary Agency -- pt. I Globalizing Capital-in-Crisis -- ch. 2 The Altered Character of Capitals Crisis -- ch. 3 A Century of Lenin's Imperialism -- ch. 4 On Changes in the Proletariat with Capitalist Globalization and the Need for a Critique of Marx's Conception of the Proletariat -- ch. 5 The Impact of Capital-in-Crisis on Nature -- ch. 6 The Trajectory of Trade Unionism Under Capital's Unfolding Structural Crisis -- ch. 7 Capital's Offensive against Social Provision -- pt. II Impasse and Outmodedness: The Twilight of the Trade Unions -- ch. 8 The Organization of the Proletariat under Cyclical and Structural Forms of Capital's Crisis -- ch. 9 Labour's Growing Crisis of Organization -- pt. III Breaking Out of the `Bottleneck' of Historically Limited, Self-Subsistent Trade Union Organization -- ch. 10 Socialist Pluralism' and the Conception of the `Social Union' -- ch. 11 From Trade Unions Towards the Formation of `Social Unions'? -- ch. 12 The Social Union as Revolutionary Agency against the Capital Order -- pt. IV The Question of Revolutionary Agency in the Twentieth Century -- ch. 13 Lenin and the Question of Revolutionary Agency -- ch. 14 Trotsky's Transitional Programme, the `Bolshevist-Leninist' Approach to Trade Unionism and the Demise of the Sectarian Politics of the `Revolutionary Left' -- ch. 15 A Critique of `Vanguardism' and the `Party-Form' -- Appendices -- Appendix I Marx's Realms: Capital, Natural Necessity, True Realm of Freedom -- Appendix III The Broadcasting and Print Media: In the Ideological Service of Capital and its State Power -- Appendix III Whatever Happened to the `National Liberation Struggle'?