In and against the State : Discussion Notes for Socialists （2ND Library Binding）

Group, London Edinburgh Weekend Return/ Wheeler, Seth (EDT)/ Holloway, John (FRW)

Pluto Press（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745341804
• DDC分類 331.7950941

Full Description

Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics. Informed by autonomist political ideas and practices that were central to the protests of 1968, the book's authors spoke to a generation of activists wrestling with the question of where to place their energies.

Forty years have passed, yet the questions it posed are still to be answered. As the eclipse of Corbynism and the onslaught of the global pandemic have demonstrated with brutal clarity, a renewed socialist strategy is needed more urgently than ever.

This edition includes a new introduction by Seth Wheeler and an interview with John McDonnell that reflect on the continuing relevance of In and Against the State and the questions it raises.

Contents

Introduction - Seth Wheeler (University of Royal Holloway)

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to First Edition

1. In the State

2. The Predicament

3. Understanding the Capitalist State

4. Crisis

5. Against the State

6. Oppositional Possibilities

Original Postscript

1 Living the Crisis

2 The New Mode of Domination

3 Anger, Resistance and the Making of Socialism

4 Interview with John McDonnell