Lucien van der Walt, Kirk Helliker

Politics at a Distance from the State

Radical and African Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing state power. The collapse of statist projects from the 1970s fostered both neo-liberalism and a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But it also opened space for rediscovering democratic, society-centered and anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. This resurgent alternative has influenced the Zapatistas in Mexico, Rojava in Syria, Occupy, and independent unions and struggles worldwide around austerity, land, and the city. Its lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and popular praxis. This pathbreaking volume helps recover this once sidelined politics, with a focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It includes a dossier of texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists, radical unionists, and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. Originating in an African summit of scholars, social movements, and anti-apartheid veterans, this book also features a preface from John Holloway.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781629639437
• ISBN-10: 1629639435
• Artikelnr.: 62221231

Autorenporträt

Lucien van der Walt is a South African sociologist and labour educator, involved in the working-class movement. His research includes anarchism/syndicalism, working-class and left history, and neo-liberalism. He has been active in workers' education since the 1990s, including for DITSELA, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, the Vuyisile Mini Workers School, the Unemployed Peoples’ Movement, and the Red & Black Forums.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: at a distance from the state—John Holloway
1. Politics at a distance from the state: radical, South African and
Zimbabwean praxis today—Kirk Helliker and Lucien van der Walt
2. Constructing the domain of freedom: thinking politics at a distance from
the state—Michael Neocosmos
3. Back to the future: revival, relevance and route of an
anarchist/syndicalist approach for twenty-first-century left, labour and
national liberation movements—Lucien van der Walt
4. Prefiguring democratic revolution? ‘Workers’ control’ and ‘workerist’
traditions of radical South African labour, 1970–1985—Sian Byrne and Nicole
Ulrich
5. Broadening conceptions of democracy and citizenship: the subaltern
histories of rural resistance in Mpondoland and Marikana—Camalita Naicker
and Sarah Bruchhausen
6. A feminist perspective on autonomism and commoning, with reference to
Zimbabwe—Tarryn Alexander and Kirk Helliker
7. From Below: An Overview of South African Politics at a Distance from the
State, 1917-2015, with Dossier of Texts—Compiled and edited, with
introduction, by Lucien van der Walt