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Book SynopsisIn this important contribution to political theory, Massimo Modonesi develops the thesis that a Marxist theory of political action can be developed from the notion of antagonism, defined as a distinctive feature of struggle and of the political experience of insubordination. The author argues this central idea with close reference to the concept of class struggle. He advances a theoretical proposal based on the triad subalternity-antagonism-autonomy, as well as the uneven and combined character of the processes of political subjectification. At the center of this triad, the concept of antagonism stands out as a logical principle and the core of a Marxist theory of political action. At the same time, subalternism reappears frequently, as the counter-pole of antagonistic activation and autonomous practices, and as the root of what Antonio Gramsci calls 'passive revolutions'.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
Part One
- Coordinates of a Marxist Theory of Political Action
- Notes on the Gramscian Concept of Subaltern Classes
- Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy
- Antagonism as Principle
- Subalternisation and Passive Revolution
Part Two
- Methodological Questions
- Uses, Omissions, and Distortions in the Concept of Passive Revolution in Latin America
- The End of Progressive Hegemony and the Regressive Turn in Latin America: The End of a Cycle
- Post-progressivism and Emancipatory Horizons in Latin America
Afterword - Sergio Tamayo
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