{"product_id":"politics-at-a-distance-from-the-state","title":"Politics at a Distance from the State","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical transformation with capturing state power. The collapse of these statist projects from the 1970s led to a global crisis of left and working class politics. But crisis has also opened space for rediscovering alternative society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. These have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and Rojava in Syria. They have been a key influence on movements from Occupy in United States, to the landless in Latin America, to anti-austerity struggles in Europe and Asia, to urban movements in Africa. Their lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and radical popular praxis. This path-breaking volume recovers this understanding of social transformation, long side-lined but now resurgent, like a seed in the soil that keeps breaking through and growing. It provides case studies with reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe, and includes a dossier of key texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists, insurgent unionists and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. Originating in an African summit of radical academics, struggle veterans and social movements, the book includes a preface from John Holloway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary African Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, with the addition of a new dossier on the history and voices of a century of politics at a distance from the state in South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224956555608,"sku":"9780815346920","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780815346920_583e581b-0950-4522-b4ee-328a4e74104f.jpg?v=1777091413","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/politics-at-a-distance-from-the-state","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}