Class Politics Now
Culture, Organization, and Democracy in Late-Stage Capitalism
Robert F Carley author Daniella Mascarenhas author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Publishing:20th Apr '27
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 20th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Populist insurgencies. Creeping authoritarianism. Deepening class fragmentation. This is the volatile landscape created by late-stage capitalism. In the years since the 2008 financial crash, movements from Occupy, to the gilets jaunes, to the Fight for $15 have repeatedly mobilized working people against austerity, inequality, and precarity - and repeatedly failed to consolidate lasting power.
While most analyses of this late neoliberal working-class disempowerment stop at diagnosis, Class Politics Now offers concrete theory for showing how we can turn today's scattered progressive movements into durable collective power capable of challenging the status quo. Focusing on how class politics can be reconnected in practice, this book offers a framework for reconstructing transformative politics in the twenty-first century.
At a moment when democracy is often reduced to elections, institutions, and political procedure, Class Politics Now asks us to consider democracy as something people must actively make. It provides an ambitious and necessary framework for thinking about how that work can happen.
-- Brandon Bauer, Associate Professor of Art at St. Norbert College & Center for Artistic Activism Unstoppable Voters Academic ConsultantThe neoliberal consensus has frayed over the last two decades as popular faith in markets and technocratic governance have crumbled. In this conjunctural moment, Carley and Mascarenhas see the necessity and the potential for democratic renewal. Drawing on a range of theorists, including Catherine Liu, Herbert Marcuse, Rosa Luxemburg, and-- most centrally—Antonio Gramsci, the authors show how a new class politics can redeem democracy from liberalism’s failures and push back against creeping authoritarianism. Like the best cultural studies scholarship, Class Politics Now encourages readers to move from theory to praxis by challenging hierarchies and highlighting the possibilities of the popular. This book is not just for political theorists, sociologists, and media scholars (although they will get much from it); it is an urgent call for workers of all kinds to bring their intellect to bear in a collective struggle for a better world.
-- Brian Dolber, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, California State University, San MaISBN: 9781808355035
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168 pages