Title: Revolution today /
Authors: Buck-Morss, Susan
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social movements; Social justice; Community organization; Capitalism Social aspects; Globalization Social aspects; Capitalism Social aspects; Community organization; Globalization Social aspects; Social justice; Social movements
Abstract: "Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference--these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible. In a moving account that includes over 100 photos and images, Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grassroots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism, and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference"--
Contents: Introduction -- Nation state/global capitalism -- Historical surprises from the recent past -- Modernity : a shared dream -- The dream crashes -- The irony of history -- Revolution today.