Democracy Against the State by Miguel Abensour - 9780745650098

Democracy Against the StateMarx and the Machiavellian Movement\nAuthor(s): Miguel Abensour\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745650098, 978-0745650098\nSynopsis\nIn the \""Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, the young Marx elliptically alludes to a \""true democracy\"" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensours rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an unknown Marx who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and defends a historically occluded form of politics. True democracy does not entail the political and economic power of the state, but it does not dream of a post-political society either. On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles, a politics that counters political bureaucracy and representation. Democracy is \""won\"" by a people forewarned that any dissolut.