Gramsci is Dead
Subtitle: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements
By: Richard J. F. Day
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2005-09-28
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780745321127
Subjects: Anarchism; Radicalism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Socialism; History & Theory - Radical Thought; Political Science / International Relations; Political Ideologies - Anarchism; Communism
Other titles: Gramsci è morto: Dall’egemonia all’affinità
First sentence: As David Graeber has pointed out in a recent article in New Left Review, many of today's activists are rejecting 'a politics which appeals to governments to modify their behaviour, in favour of physical intervention against state power in a form that itself prefigures an alternative' (2002: 62).
Description: Gramsci and the concept of hegemony cast a long shadow over radical political theory. Yet how far has this theory got us? Is it still central to feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anarchism, and other radical social movements today?

Unlike previous revolutionary movements, Day argues, most contemporary radical social movements do not strive to take control of the state. Instead, they attempt to develop new forms of self-organisation that can run in parallel with — or as alternatives to — existing forms of social, political, and economic organization. This is to say that they follow a logic of affinity rather than one of hegemony.

This book draws together a variety of different strands in political theory to weave together an innovative new approach to politics today. Rigorous and wide-ranging, Day introduces and interrogates key concepts. From Hegel’s concept of recognition, through theories of hegemony and affinity to Hardt and Negri’s reflections on Empire, Day maps academia’s theoretical and philosophical concerns onto today’s politics of the street.

Ideal for all students of political theory, Day’s fresh approach combines Marxist, Anarchist and Post-structuralist theory to shed new light on the politics and practice of contemporary social movements.

(Source: [Pluto Press](https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783716531/gramsci-is-dead/))
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Seattle, anarchism and the corporate mass media
pagenum: 1; title: Naming ‘the movement’ … and other key terms
pagenum: 4; title: Who is speaking?
pagenum: 9; title: The argument
pagenum: 13; label: 1.
title: Doing it Yourself: Direct-action Currents in Contemporary Radical Activism
pagenum: 19; title: Zero-participation: crusty punks and lifestyle anarchists
pagenum: 20; title: The incredible lightness of cultural subversion
pagenum: 21; title: Getting heavy: impeding the flows of state and corporate power
pagenum: 25; title: Direct-action casework: a hybrid form
pagenum: 31; title: Prefiguring/creating alternatives
pagenum: 34; title: Beyond reform, this side of Revolution
pagenum: 44; label: 2.
title: Tracking the Hegemony of Hegemony: Classical Marxism and Liberalism
pagenum: 46; title: We can’t hear you! Liberals and Marxists on the newest social movements
pagenum: 48; title: Classical liberalism and the bourgeois revolutionaries
pagenum: 51; title: Hegemony = dictatorship + democracy
pagenum: 54; title: Gramsci, Lenin and the hegemony of hegemony
pagenum: 65; label: 3.
title: Tracking the Hegemony of Hegemony: Postmarxism and the New Social Movements
pagenum: 66; title: The long middle of the twentieth century
pagenum: 66; title: What was new about the ‘new social movements’?
pagenum: 68; title: Hegemony goes poststructuralist: Laclau and Mouffe
pagenum: 70; title: Liberal multiculturalism and the recognition/integration paradigm
pagenum: 76; title: Politics of demand/ethics of desire
pagenum: 80; title: ‘We’ are not ‘you’: Anti-integration themes in postcolonial, feminist and queer theory
pagenum: 85; title: Towards a politics of the act
pagenum: 88; label: 4.
title: Utopian Socialism Then …
pagenum: 91; title: Guiding threads
pagenum: 91; title: William Godwin: the rationalist who would make no promises
pagenum: 96; title: The Utopian Socialists proper: Owen, Fourier and Saint-Simon
pagenum: 100; title: Anarchist Theory after Utopian Socialism: Proudhon
pagenum: 108; title: Bakunin and the social revolution
pagenum: 112; title: Kropotkin: expropriation and social (r)evolution
pagenum: 117; title: Early twentieth-century anarchism and the concept of structural renewal
pagenum: 123; title: Conclusion: taking the tally
pagenum: 127; label: 5.
title: … and Now
pagenum: 129; title: Elements of poststructuralist critique: becoming minor
pagenum: 131; title: Autonomist marxism and the constituent power of the multitude
pagenum: 143; title: Postanarchism: a bridgeable chasm
pagenum: 159; title: Citizen, Nomad, Smith
pagenum: 172; label: 6.
title: Ethics, Affinity and the Coming Communities
pagenum: 178; title: What are the coming communities?
pagenum: 178; title: The coming ethics: groundless solidarity and infinite responsibility
pagenum: 186; title: The problems of white middle-class movements
pagenum: 197; label: 7.
title: Conclusion: Utopian Socialism Again and Again
pagenum: 203; title: Signs of failure/signs of hope
pagenum: 203; title: What of the coming economies?
pagenum: 210; title: A Utopian future: the end of ‘civil society’
pagenum: 213; title: Notes
pagenum: 218; title: References
pagenum: 227; title: Index
pagenum: 245