Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives

by Lucien Van Der Walt and Kirk Helliker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629639435
• ISBN13: 9781629639437
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"