{"product_id":"revolution-and-its-alternatives-other-marxisms-other-empowerments-other-priorities-9781642590715","title":"Revolution and Its Alternatives: Other Marxisms,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, Tom Brass asserts that there is - but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still transferring, his\/her support to the radical politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum. The combination of, on the one hand, a globally expanding industrial reserve army, generating ever more intense competition in the labour markets of capitalism, and, on the other, the endorsement by many on the left not of class but rather of non-class identities espoused by the 'new' populist postmodernism, has fuelled what can only be described as a perfect political storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  The Vanishing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  The Banishment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  Making a Difference? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  The Shrewd Scholar? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  Something They Have Forgotten? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Themes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Revolutionary\/Counter-revolutionary Practice\/Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 \u003cstrong\u003eRevolution in Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: Revolution, or Reform (and Counter-revolution) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  Educate them to Revolt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  The Greatest of All Proprietors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Desperation and Vengeance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  As the Part to the Whole \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 \u003cstrong\u003eRevolution in Theory \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Revolution and\/as Modernity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  To the Barricades? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  Half the Voters Plus One? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Confused Chatter and Legislative Obstruction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  Modernity and\/as Bourgeois Democracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 \u003cstrong\u003eRefusing Revolution, Empowering Counter-Revolution \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: To the Barricades? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  What History Taught Us \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  The Nation's Great Concerns \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  The Balance of Class Power? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  To the Barricades \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  The World We\/(They) Have Lost \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  7  A (Marxist) Warning from History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  8  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Other Marxisms, Other Priorities\/Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 \u003cstrong\u003eThe (Revolutionary) Path Not Taken\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: Promoting Capitalism, Not Socialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2   \u003cem\u003eLaissez-faire\u003c\/em\u003e Discourse-for \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  In the Footsteps of \u003cem\u003eLaissez-faire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Capitalism - or Socialism? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  The Path Not Taken \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 \u003cstrong\u003eAvoiding Revolution: A Return to Patronage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: From Periphery to the (Academic) Core \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  Empiricism, Patronage and Subsistence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  Personal Tie of Affection? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Two Concepts, or One? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  A Caring State... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  ...or Permanent Revolution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  7  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 \u003cstrong\u003eMisunderstanding Revolution: (Re-) Defining Coercion? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: A Necessary Journey? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  The Debate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  The Debate Transcended? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Problems with Theory \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  Butterfly Collecting \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 \u003cstrong\u003eOther Priorities, Other Identities: Unmasking the Subaltern\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: (Armchair) Generals Go to War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  Subaltern Conquests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  Nationalist Appropriation I: Cambridge and England \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4  Nationalist Appropriation II: Delhi and India \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5  Critique of a Critique \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6  Difference and Sameness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  7  \u0026amp;'A reiteration of the already said' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  8  Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Alternatives to Revolution?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 \u003cstrong\u003eBetraying Revolution (Again)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1  Introduction: Revolutionary Socialism as the Fifth Horseman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2  Peasants, Left and Right \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3  A Plan of Campaign? 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