Can Common People Govern? : Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings

Name: Can Common People Govern? : Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

In Can Common People Govern?, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form and the movement-form through a critical analysis of Lenin, Xi Jinping, Gramsci, Althusser, and the theorists of left-wing populism, Laclau and Mouffe. Popular political organization, he argues, must be related to the structure of modern society, in which the popular class is opposed in a \u0093triangular duel\u0094 against a dominant class that includes two poles in conflictual connivance, \u0093capitalpower\u0094 and \u0093competence-power\u0094 (or \u0093elite\u0094). This duality offers the common people an angle of attack for a\n\nCan Common People Govern?\nPolitical Parties, Movements, and Uprisings\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK deliver;