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- ISBN 9781538160152
- Weight: 658g
- Dimensions: 161 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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With the rise of myriad forms of identity politics which corresponds to a new “Trinity Formula” of leftist analysis of capitalism (class, race, and gender), major currents in the contemporary radical left in the past decades have shifted their aim. This book addresses the ideological, theoretical, and practical dilemmas of the contemporary academic and activist left from a Marxist standpoint.
Covering contemporary developments in Left thought and ideology and putting them into social and historical context, the chapters provide a theoretical confrontation with the myriad ways it has tended to accommodate itself to neoliberal ideology, rather than fundamentally opposing it.
The contrast between the Marxian emancipatory project and what the progressive left has made of it has never been more glaring than now, a time in which capital no longer seems to confront a political barrier. It is this predicament that The Conformist Rebellion evaluates, for a renewed approach to emancipation from capital.
Elena Louisa Lange is senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Zurich. She is the co-editor of two books on Asian Philosophy and the author of Value without Fetish: Uno Kôzô’s Theory of Pure Capitalism.
Joshua Pickett-Depaolis is an independent researcher and an editor of the political theory journal Counter Attack. His interests include Marxist strategic thought and the Clausewitzian tradition of political realism
