Full Description
This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.
Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of national resistance that have arisen across the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, South Africa, Ukraine, and France in the past 15 years, providing a salient snapshot of geopolitical and social events in a way that is both timely and in-the-moment. The book represents an effort to analyze world events, especially revolutions and radical movements, in a dialectical manner, combining contemporary analysis of the class, gender, and ethnic dimensions of these upheavals with theoretical and historical reflection that engages Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, CLR James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and other thinkers in the Marxian tradition.
A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, social movements, and contemporary social theory.
Contents
Introduction
1. The Arab Revolutions I: Breakout
2. The Arab Revolutions II: Under Attack
3. The Arab Revolutions III: New Elements Amid Deep Setbacks
4. The Arab Revolutions IV: Defeat and Glimmers of Resurgence
5. Iran on the Verge
6. Ferment in Africa: Sudan's Revolution and South Africa after Marikana
7. Ukraine and Palestine: Fighting for National Existence
8. France in Turmoil, from the Yellow Vests to the 2023 Mass Strikes and Anti-Police Uprising
Appendix 1. To the Arab Readers of Marx at the Margins
Appendix 2. Two Dialectical Anniversaries, Lukács and Dunayevskaya
