Revolution and Its Alternatives : Other Marxisms, Other Empowerments, Other Priorities.

Intro -- Revolution and Its Alternatives: Other Marxisms, Other Empowerments, Other Priorities -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 1 The Vanishing -- 2 The Banishment -- 3 Making a Difference? -- 4 The Shrewd Scholar? -- 5 Something They Have Forgotten? -- 6 Themes -- Part 1: Revolutionary/Counter-revolutionary Practice/Theory -- 1 Revolution in Practice -- 1 Introduction: Revolution, or Reform (and Counter-revolution) -- 2 Educate them to Revolt -- 3 The Greatest of All Proprietors -- 4 Desperation and Vengeance -- 5 As the Part to the Whole -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Revolution in Theory -- 1 Revolution and/as Modernity -- 2 To the Barricades? -- 3 Half the Voters Plus One? -- 4 Confused Chatter and Legislative Obstruction -- 5 Modernity and/as Bourgeois Democracy -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Refusing Revolution, Empowering Counter-revolution -- 1 Introduction: To the Barricades? -- 2 What History Taught Us -- 3 The Nation's Great Concerns -- 4 The Balance of Class Power? -- 5 To the Barricades -- 6 The World We/(They) Have Lost -- 7 A (Marxist) Warning from History -- 8 Conclusion -- Part 2: Other Marxisms, Other Priorities/Identities -- 4 The (Revolutionary) Path Not Taken -- 1 Introduction: Promoting Capitalism, Not Socialism -- 2 Laissez-faire Discourse-for -- 3 In the Footsteps of Laissez-faire -- 4 Capitalism - or Socialism? -- 5 The Path Not Taken -- 6 Conclusion -- 5 Avoiding Revolution: A Return to Patronage -- 1 Introduction: From Periphery to the (Academic) Core -- 2 Empiricism, Patronage and Subsistence -- 3 Personal Tie of Affection? -- 4 Two Concepts, or One? -- 5 A Caring State. -- 6 .or Permanent Revolution -- 7 Conclusion -- 6 Misunderstanding Revolution: (Re-)Defining Labour Coercion? -- 1 Introduction: A Necessary Journey? -- 2 The Debate -- 3 The Debate Transcended?.

4 Problems with Theory -- 5 Butterfly Collecting -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Other Priorities, Other Identities: Unmasking the Subaltern -- 1 Introduction: (Armchair) Generals Go to War -- 2 Subaltern Conquests -- 3 Nationalist Appropriation I: Cambridge and England -- 4 Nationalist Appropriation II: Delhi and India -- 5 Critique of a Critique -- 6 Difference and Sameness -- 7 'A reiteration of the already said' -- 8 Conclusion -- Part 3: Alternatives to Revolution? -- 8 Betraying Revolution (Again) -- 1 Introduction: Revolutionary Socialism as the Fifth Horseman -- 2 Peasants, Left and Right -- 3 A Plan of Campaign? -- 4 Power Wanting, But Wanting Power? -- 5 Resistance, Not Revolution -- 6 Conclusion -- 9 Viva La Revolución? Eric Hobsbawm on Peasants -- 1 Introduction: A Time There Was... -- 2 Big in Brazil -- 3 Hobsbawm and Feudalism -- 4 Hobsbawm and the hacienda System -- 5 Hobsbawm and Capitalism -- 6 Hobsbawm and Marxism -- 7 Outside Latin America -- 8 Conclusion -- 10 Marxism, or Postmodern Precursor? John Berger on Peasants -- 1 Introduction: Holy Humble Peasants? -- 2 No Country for Old Peasants -- 3 Migrants, Gender, Money -- 4 Different Stories, Same Themes -- 5 Looking, But Seeing? -- 6 Too Much History, Too Many Lives -- 7 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Support for a radical politics and its form of political mobilization exists, but in the absence of a revolutionary leftist project, this support has in the past, and is currently, been transferred to the counter-revolutionary politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum.

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