Smucker, Jonathan Matthew

Hegemony how-to : a roadmap for radicals / Roadmap for radicals Jonathan Matthew Smucker - Chico, CA : AK Press, 2017 - 280 p. ; 22 cm

Includes index

Political orphans --
The 99% : the symbol and the agent --
Life of the oppositional group --
The prefigurative and the political --
Aspiring hegemonic --
Beyond the low plateau --
The invitation we extend --
The we in politics --
Conclusion : the next left zeitgeist.

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Hopeful about the potential of today’s burgeoning movements, long-time grassroots organizer Jonathan Smucker nonetheless pulls no punches when confronting their internal dysfunction. Drawing from personal experience, he provides deep theoretical insight into the all-too-familiar radical tendency toward self-defeating insularity and paralyzing purism. At the same time, he offers tools to bridge the divide between anti-authoritarian values and hegemonic strategies, tools that might just help today’s movements to navigate their obstacles and change the world.

9781849352543 1849352542


Hegemonía
Radicalismo --Estados Unidos
Participación política --Estados Unidos
Movimientos de protesta

JK 274 / S666h 2017

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