{"product_id":"can-common-people-govern-9781032843575","title":"Can Common People Govern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCan Common People Govern?\u003c\/i\u003e, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form and the movement-form through a critical analysis of Lenin, Xi Jinping, Gramsci, Althusser, and the theorists of left-wing populism, Laclau and Mouffe. Popular political organization, he argues, must be related to the structure of modern society, in which the popular class is opposed in a âœtriangular duelâ against a dominant class that includes two poles in conflictual connivance, âœcapitalpowerâ and âœcompetence-powerâ (or âœeliteâ). This duality offers the common people an angle of attack for a risky alliance with this elite against capital. This class confrontation is put in the context of the ongoing ecological disaster and popular uprisings. In the age of disaster, environmental\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019253186903,"sku":"9781032843575","price":46.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032843575.jpg?v=1750779663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/can-common-people-govern-9781032843575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}