Neither Vertical nor Horizontal e-bog
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A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "e;horizontal"e; and "e;leaderless"e; swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back to what was once called "e;the question of organisation"e;. For something so often described as essential, however, political organisation...
E-bog
102,59 DKK
Forlag
Verso
Udgivet
25 maj 2021
Længde
320 sider
Genrer
Political science and theory
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781788733854
A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "e;horizontal"e; and "e;leaderless"e; swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back to what was once called "e;the question of organisation"e;. For something so often described as essential, however, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field. In this book, Rodrigo Nunes proposes to remedy that lack by starting again from scratch. Redefining the terms of the problem, he rejects the confusion between organisation and any of the forms it can take, such as the party, and argues that organisation must be understood as always supposing a diverse ecology of different initiatives and organisational forms. Drawing from a wide array of sources and traditions that include cybernetics, poststructuralism, network theory and Marxism, Nunes develops a grammar that eschews easy oppositions between "e;verticalism"e; and "e;horizontalism"e;, centralisation and dispersion, and offers a fresh approach to enduring issues like spontaneity, leadership, democracy, strategy, populism, revolution, and the relationship between movements and parties.