The Antagonistic Principle

Marxism and Political Action
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-32242-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 182, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

In 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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Modonesi, Massimo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One

I. Coordinates of a Marxist Theory of Political Action

II. Notes on the Gramscian Concept of Subaltern Classes

III. Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy

IV. Antagonism as Principle

V. Subalternisation and Passive Revolution

Part Two

VI. Methodological Questions

VII. Uses, Omissions, and Distortions in the Concept of Passive Revolution in Latin America

VIII. The End of Progressive Hegemony and the Regressive Turn in Latin America: The End of a Cycle

IX. Post-progressivism and Emancipatory Horizons in Latin America

Afterword – Sergio Tamayo

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Massimo Modonesi is Professor and Chair of the Political and Social Sciences Faculty at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the author of twelve books on social and political movements in Latin-America and on Marxist political theory. In English his most recent published work is Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy. Constructing the Political Subject (Pluto, 2014). He is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Gramsci Society.