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• Introduction: Living in the tension
• Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)
• Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)
• Reinventing the people (inclusion/exclusion)
• Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)
• Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneity/structure)
• A Socratic mob (expertise/mass opinion)
• New world order (local/global)
• A ruin or a habitation (present/future)
• Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to perennial midwives.

"What is democracy, really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a 'New Civil Rights Leader' by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise. The problems lie deeper than any one election cycle. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy--fully inclusive and completely egalitarian--has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with former prime ministers and such leading thinkers as Cornel West and Wendy Brown, Taylor invites us to reexamine the term. Is democracy a means or an end, a process or a set of desired outcomes? What if those outcomes, whatever they may be--peace, prosperity, equality, liberty, an engaged citizenry--can be achieved by nondemocratic means? In what areas of life should democratic principles apply? If democracy means rule by the people, what does it mean to rule and who counts as the people? Democracy's inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, [this book] offers a better understanding of what is possible, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it remains worth striving for."--Dust jacket.

• Acknowledgments viii
• 1 What Is to Be Done? 1
• 2 What Democracy Means 29
• 3 Becoming Democratic 75
• 4 Becoming Active 92
• 5 Revolutionary Connections 122
• 6 Conclusion 143 References 159 Index 168.
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Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revivify the political fortunes of the left.* Details strategies for reanimating the fortunes of the political left* Features in-depth analysis of key political theorists such as Gramsci, Lefebvre, Ranciere, Deleuze & Guattari, and Hardt & Negri* Includes empirical analysis of recent instances of collective action* Advocates the reframing of democracy as a personal and collective struggle to discover the best in ourselves and others.
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This book carefully guides the reader through each chapter of the first volume of Capital. It sets Marx's arguments in context, and explains their relevance today, and it offers insights into Marx's method, highlighting key concepts running through the book. It also offers pointers to wider works that can provide further illumination.

• Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy-- From Marxism to Poststructuralism-- From Structuralism to Poststructuralism-- On Language and Text-- On Structure and Subject-- On Image and Form-- On Economy and Institution-- On Resistance and Limit-- Archaeology and Genealogy-- Deconstruction-- Schizoanalysis-- Ecriture feminine-- Poststructuralism and its Critics-- From Poststructuralism to Postcolonialism-- Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis-- Receptions (Cultural Theory)-- Receptions (Film Theory)-- Poststructuralism as French Theory-- Poststructuralism: The Geography of its Dispersal.
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Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it's achieved and where it's going. Written by experts in their field, this important reference volume surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigary, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism. It explores the emergence of poststructuralism, from its origins in Marxism and structuralism to its global academic impact. It includes chapters that are arranged by theme and topic, showing which ideas captivated poststructuralist thinkers. It looks at the criticisms of poststructuralism. It investigates the new trends and recent debates within and around poststructuralism.
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This straightforward introduction to radical political economy strikes a balance between breadth and depth and was written for the beginning student and others interested in a relatively short text on radical economics.
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Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism's adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were "real socialism". This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as "not real socialism".

• Translator's Note Introduction by Fred Moseley Chapter One: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit
• 1. Surplus-Value and Profit [2. Cost Price]
• 3. Economy in the Use of Constant Capital
• 4. The Effect of Changes in Raw Material Prices
• 5. Release and Tying-up of Capital, Depreciation and Appreciation, Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital
• 6. The Influence of Changes in Circulation Time, its Shortening or Lengthening (and also changes in the means of communication connected with this) on the Rate of Profit
• 7. Profit (as it appears to the bourgeois) Chapter Two: The Transformation of Profit into Average Profit
• 1. Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit
• 2. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Profit) and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production
• 3. The Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit.
• 4. The Effects of a General Increase or Reduction (Fall) in Wages on the Prices of Production of the Different Commodities
• 5. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation Supplement on Prices of Production Chapter Three: The Law of the Tendential Fall in the General Rate of Profit with the Advance of Capitalist Production Chapter Four: The Transformation of Commodity Capital and Money Capital into Merchant's Capital (Commodity-Dealing Capital and Money-Dealing Capital)
• 1. Commodity-Dealing Capital (Commercial Profit)
• 2. Commercial Profit and its Characteristics
• 3. The Turnover of Mercantile Capital. Prices
• 4. Money-Dealing Capital
• 5. [no title]
• Chapter Five: The Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. (Industrial or Commercial Profit). Interest-Bearing Capital
• 1. [Interest-Bearing Capital]
• 2. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. The Natural Rate of Interest
• 3. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
• 4. The Externalisation of Surplus-Value and the Capital Relation in General in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
• 5. Credit. Fictitious Capital
• 6. Pre-Bourgeois Relations Chapter Six: The Transformation of Surplus Profit into Ground-Rent (a) Introduction (c) Absolute Ground-Rent (b) Differential Rent
• [The First Form of Differential Rent]
• [The Second Form of Differential Rent] Chapter Seven: The Revenues and their Sources
• 1. The Trinity Formula
• 2. [On the Analysis of the Production Process]
• 3. The Illusion Created by Competition
• 4. Relations of Production and Distribution
• 5. Classes Appendix Bibliography Index.
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Marx's only full draft of Volume III of Capital was written in the Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865. The Volume III that we know was heavily edited by Engels. It has been a long-standing question in Marxian scholarship whether or not there are significant differences between Marx's original manuscript and Engels's edited version. Marx's manuscript was published for the first time in German in 1992 in the Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe, Section II, Volume 4.2, but this important manuscript has not previously been translated into English. The publication of this English translation of Marx's original manuscript is thus an important event in Marxian scholarship. English-speaking Marxist scholars can finally compare Engels's Volume III with Marx's original manuscript and evaluate for themselves the significance of the differences.
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• Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction
• PART I: The communist life cycle: the early years
• 1 In the home: communist mothercraft and child rearing
• 2 Into the Party structure: the communist children movement
• 3 A bright and purposeful life: youth and the Young Communist League PART II: The communist life cycle: adulthood
• 4 A single communist personality?: communist couples and Red families
• 5 Being in a familiar place: the life of the adult activist PART III: The communist life cycle: Shaping communists
• 6 Tending the communist body: the quest for physical fitness
• 7 Communist life style: fostering correct habits, good behaviour, and right ways of living
• 8 Communists at play
• 9 Culture from below: a culture for proletarians PART IV: The communist life cycle: end of the cycle
• 10 In memoriam Afterword Select Bibliography Index
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Based on extensive use of primary evidence, this is the first study of interwar British communism to set the communist experience within the framework of the life cycle. Communism offered a complete identity that could reach into virtually all aspects of life; the Party sought influence even over members' personal conduct, moral codes, health and diet, personal hygiene, and aesthetic judgements. The British Communist Party (CPGB) sought to address the communist experience through all of the principal phases of the life cycle, and its reach therefore extended to take in children, youth, and the various aspects of the adult experience, including marital and kinship relations. The book also considers the contention that the Communist Party functioned as a 'political religion' for some joiners who opted to enter the congregation of the communist devoted. -- .
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• Introduction Part One: The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism To Neoliberalism - And Beyond
• 1. Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian `Full Employment' Era
• 2. Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism
• 3. That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain - and the British Labour Party - Fell into the Monetarist Trap (late 1960s-late 1970s)
• 4. The Paris Consensus: the French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe (1981-1995)
• 5. The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-driven Project
• 6. Apres elle, le deluge: Are we Entering a Post-neoliberal Age? Part Two: A Progressive Strategy For The 21st Century
• 7. Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty
• 8. A Currency-issuing Government is Not Like a Household: an Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory
• 9. I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better Than a Basic Income
• 10. We Have a (Central) Plan: the Case for Re-nationalisation Conclusions Notes Index.
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The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing the West all involve a yearning for a relic of the past: national sovereignty. In response to these challenging times, economist William Mitchell and political theorist Thomas Fazi reconceptualise the nation state as a vehicle for progressive change. They show how despite the ravages of neoliberalism, the state still contains resources for democratic control of a nation's economy and finances. The populist turn provides an opening to develop an ambitious but feasible left political strategy. Reclaiming the State offers an urgent, provocative and prescient political analysis of our current predicament, and lays out a comprehensive strategy for revitalising progressive economics in the 21st century.
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This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to the novel are the romances of the two leading men, a Toronto professor and an American reporter, who become involved with farmer's daughters.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory Part I. Marx's Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism
• 1. The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts
• 2. The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science
• 3. Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism
• Part II. Dialectical Knowledge in Motion: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Marx's Mature Critique of Political Economy
• 4. The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method
• 5. The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx's Dialectical Exposition in Capital
• 6. The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique
• 7. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form
• 8. Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject
• 9. By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity Bibliography Index.
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In Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, which has turned into the very alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital), is to develop, as its own immanent determination, the constitution of the (self-abolishing) working class as a revolutionary subject. A crucial element in this intellectual endeavour is the focus on the intrinsic connection between the specifically dialectical form of social science and its radical transformative content.
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Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman's most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx's economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi.
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• Introduction : when the world knew
• The collapse of institutional legitimacy
• A worldwide movement against elites
• The breakdown of alliances
• Authoritarianism rising, democracy declining
• The rogue menace
• The Islamist challenge
• Third world in crisis
• A global energy war?
• Religion and American leadership
• Assertive democratic idealism.

Collapse takes stock of a volatile and threatening international environment by looking at some of the underlying causes and flashpoints-the principal one being the failure of institutions and elites to respond to their constituencies and address the problems of our age. This is a problem spanning the increased polarization that bred nationalist and populist movements, the continued failure of Western leaders to come up with effective strategies for combating authoritarian rivals like Russia and China, and the ongoing Islamist threat. Schoen makes clear that the indispensable ingredient for any constructive path forward is effective, engaged, and committed American leadership. This is discussed through the lens of the failed models of President Trump's two recent predecessors, which reflected, respectively, an uncritical embrace of American power-lacking strategic insight and proportion-and an uncritical abandonment of American leadership that suggested an abject view of the U.S. moral example in the world. Instead, Schoen posits assertive democratic idealism-an embrace of U.S. moral leadership around the world but in ways that remain leavened by realism and a guiding understanding of our national interest. Whether President Trump can deliver on such a vision remains to be seen.
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• Introduction
• 1 A 'Radical Underworld'? The infidel roots of Chartist culture
• 2 Politics and everyday life in early Chartism
• 3 From insurrection to the 'little republic of the home'
• 4 Medicine, popular science, and Chartism's improvement culture
• 5 Communal self-improvement after the 'disasters of the Strike'
• 6 The fragmented legacies of Chartist moral politics Conclusion Index
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Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through study of the lives, activism and intellectual influences of a number of key leaders of working-class Radicalism, this book highlights how Radicalism's attitudes to morality and everyday life shifted from a festive and libertarian culture that advocated sexual liberty and gender equality in the 1820s-30s to a more austere and ascetic politics that emphasized moral improvement, temperance and frugality after the 1840s. Despite the fracturing of this culture with the decline of Chartism in the 1850s, Popular virtue highlights how the moral politics of the 1840s possessed important legacies in not only the politics of Popular Liberalism and the Reform League but also in heterodox medicine and self-help. -- .
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• South Africa's complex party system after the 2016 local government elections
• Introduction
• Wither the ANC's dominance? Waning electoral dominance, rising hegemonic dominance
• The need to reform the electoral system in South Africa : A constitutional engineering perspective
• Women, the electoral system and political parties
• Political parties and political leadership : Sewing reconciliation or divisions?
• Do political parties still shift public opinion?
• Securing their future : Using election campaigns to safeguard the party system
• Political parties and their capacity to provide parliamentary oversight
• ANC hegemony : Social and economic ramifications for South Africa
• The African National Congress and South Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy : A decolonial African perspective
• Conclusion : Moving South Africa forward?

• Contents and Abstracts 1Introduction chapter abstract The Introduction sets up the theoretical and empirical puzzles of the book. In Mexico and Brazil, participatory democracy reforms have been implemented as part of an emerging democratizing discourse among political parties to which citizen participation was central. In practice, however, these reforms have had mixed results, between countries and also between municipalities within a single country, as in the case of Mexico and Brazil. How do we explain success? And more important, how do we define success? The Introduction poses the debate around these two questions, presenting the theoretical arguments developed and the novel comparative method used to empirically demonstrate these arguments.
• 2How Does Success Vary? Redefining Democratic Success chapter abstract
• Chapter 2 makes the case for a redefinition of the democratic success of local participatory democracy, determined by the nature of the state-society relationships that develop through formal and informal participatory interactions. The chapter presents a typology to account for variation along the two defining dimensions of state-society relationships: the nature of mobilization (from individual to collective forms) and the level of autonomy of the participants (from controlled to autonomous). It defines the four ideal types used throughout the book to categorize the diversity of empirical outcomes observed across cases: clientelism, disempowering cooption, fragmented inclusion, and democratic cooperation.
• 3Why Do Cases Vary? A Comparative Approach chapter abstract
• Chapter 3 presents the four cities selected in greater detail, exploring existing explanations for variations in success by emphasizing the cases' historical and institutional similarities. It offers a framework for explaining the various state-society relationship outcomes-- defining the indicators for a series of cultural, institutional, and agency-related factors that, combined and in interaction with one another, can explain variation along both the mobilization and the autonomy dimensions of state-society relationships across and within cases.
• 4Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl: Participatory Democracy or Clientelistic Participation? chapter abstract
• Chapter 4 shows that the case of participatory planning in Nezahualcoyotl closely corresponds to the ideal type of clientelism. The persistence of this traditional type of state-society relationship in the city despite the existence of formal participatory channels is explained by two factors. First, a tendency of institutional design to encourage individual and particularistic forms of mobilization is observed. Second, the local sociopolitical context-characterized by high political competition among and within parties and an imbalance of civil society organizations engaged in the process that maintain unequal understanding of state and society actors' roles in the process-contributes to maintenance of control strategies in participatory mechanisms that, in turn, undermine the autonomy of civil society participants.
• 5Leon: Participation as Fragmented Inclusion chapter abstract
• Chapter 5 shows that the case of participatory planning in Leon corresponds to the ideal type of fragmented inclusion. The development of such a relationship is explained by two main elements. First, the case points to a tendency of the chosen institutional design to encourage individual forms of mobilization, organized around particularistic demands. Second, the sociopolitical context characterized by a relatively stable situation of political competition among and within parties and by participation of all sectors of civil society tends to encourage development of a partnership understanding of the state's and society's roles in the participatory process and to minimize the use of control strategies and open up possibilities for increased autonomy among participants.
• 6Recife: From Clientelism to Disempowering Co-option chapter abstract
• Chapter 6 moves the analysis to the case of Recife, in Brazil. This city presents two cases in one, and as such allows a unique time-based comparison that adds to the space-based comparisons undertaken throughout the book. The chapter shows that Recife's two distinct experiences of participatory budgeting, implemented under different local governments, reveal contrasting patterns of state-society relationships: the first one (1993-2000 under a PMDB/PFL coalition) closely corresponds to an ideal type of clientelism, while the other one (2001-2009, under the PT) has the characteristics of disempowering co-option. These varying outcomes thus represent a variation on the mobilization axis, which is best explained by the important changes introduced in the institutional design by the PT in
• 2001. The sociopolitical context, however, sustained an unequal partnership and political control practices in both experiences.
• 7Belo Horizonte: The Route Toward Democratic Cooperation? chapter abstract
• Chapter 7 presents the most successful case, Belo Horizonte, showing how it more closely corresponds to a case of democratic success, with democratic cooperation emerging between state and society actors. This is best explained by two main elements. On the one hand, the institutional design adopted in Belo Horizonte fostered collective organization of groups of citizens to define the common good. On the other hand, the sociopolitical context within which the process was implemented fostered the autonomy of participants and, rather than sustain strategies of political control, led to development of an equal partnership (understood as such) between state and society actors in the participatory process.
• 8Conclusion: Comparative Lessons for Participatory Democracy Theory chapter abstract
• Chapter 8 places the conclusions in a comparative perspective, highlighting the theoretical and policy lessons that can be learned from the five empirical cases presented in the book. It then explores the differentiated consequences each type has for the deepening of local democratic practices in governance processes, highlighting the limits and potential of each model as well as discussing the implications for the quality of democracy and its procedures, processes, and policy outcomes. The chapter discusses the theoretical implications of the findings for the study of institutional reform, civic engagement, and democratization, and also the policy implications for the policy makers and politicians who lead such types of participatory democracy reforms throughout Latin America, as well as in municipalities around the world.
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Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms of various types in the last two decades, including participatory budgeting, the flagship Brazilian program, and participatory planning, as it is the case in several Mexican municipalities. Yet, institutionalized participatory mechanisms have had mixed results in practice at the municipal level. So why and how does success vary? This book sets out to answer that question.Defining democratic success as a transformation of state-society relationships, the author goes beyond the clientelism/democracy dichotomy and reveals that four types of state-society relationships can be observed in practice: clientelism, disempowering co-option, fragmented inclusion, and democratic cooperation. Using this typology, and drawing on the comparative case study of four cities in Mexico and Brazil, the book demonstrates that the level of democratic success is best explained by an approach that accounts for institutional design, structural conditions of mobilization, and the configurations, strategies, behaviors, and perceptions of both state and societal actors.Thus, institutional change alone does not guarantee democratic success: the way these institutional changes are enacted by both political and social actors is even more important as it conditions the potential for an autonomous civil society to emerge and actively engage with the local state in the social construction of an inclusive citizenship.
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• Introduction
• 1. The ironic place of movements in democratic theory
• 2. Episodes in the history of alienation and democratic theory
• 3. A contemporary theory of alienation
• 4. Oppositional democracy
• 5. Contesting the welfare state
• Epilogue: On alienation and the contemporary security state.

Is infrequent voting the most we can expect from a free citizenry? Would democracy be more robust if our political discourse were more deliberative? John Medearis's trenchant and trend-bucking work of political philosophy argues that democracies face significant challenges that go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs, he reminds us. Revisiting fundamental questions about the system in theory and practice, Why Democracy Is Oppositional helps us see why preserving democracy has always been-and will always be-a struggle. As citizens of democracies seek political control over their destinies, they confront forces that threaten to dominate their lives. These forces may take the form of runaway financial markets, powerful special interests, expanding militaries, or dysfunctional legislatures. But citizens of democracies help create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats do not generally come from the outside but are the product of citizens' own collective activities. Medearis contends that democratic action perpetually arises to reclaim egalitarian control over social forces and institutions that have become alienated from large numbers of citizens. Democracy is therefore necessarily oppositional. Concerted, contentious political activities of all kinds are fundamental to it, while consensus and easy compromise are rarities. Recovering insights from political theorists such as Karl Marx and John Dewey, Why Democracy Is Oppositional addresses contemporary issues ranging from the global financial crisis and economic inequality to drone warfare and mass incarceration.
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"In Karl Polanyi in Dialogue, Nancy Fraser meets Karl Polanyi and the New Left meets the Old Left. An important German researcher specialising in Polanyi (author of the classic The Great Transformation), editor Michael Brie grapples with a time when the Left worldwide is on the retreat: while the Old Left lies in ruin, the New Left faces a determined neoliberal attack on the social state and social rights. Meanwhile, an aggressive New Right is taking the streets, the parliaments and even governmental power. Amidst the vertiginous tension of such a crisis, this book urgently argues for an alliance of socialist liberals and libertarian communists to reunite contemporary campaigns for recognition, difference and human dignity with more traditional struggles for social welfare and economic democracy. The book powerfully reinterprets Polanyi's thought for present times and includes two articles by the classic thinker which have been translated into English for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.