Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies : Co-Operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income (Critical Theory and Contemporary Society)

Harris, Neal

Manchester University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526172228

Full Description

Anti-capitalist activism has taken a wrong direction and social and political theoretical theorists have failed to realise this. The trend for building, what has become called, 'Alternative Societies', spaces such as mutual aid groups and workers' co-operatives, failed to grasp the true power of the capitalist totality. Drawing on the work of the early Frankfurt School, this book argues that such anti-capitalist strategies are deeply mistaken and must be urgently reconsidered.

Contents

Introduction
1 The rise of alternative societies: Incoherent pluralism and actionism
2 Frankfurt School critical theory: Lessons from a missing revolution
3 Workers' co-operative firms and interstitial revolution
4 Mutual aid groups and prefigurative revolution
5 Universal Basic Income: Symbiotic revolution and accelerationism
6 The case for critique: Corrective, transformative, therapeutic
Conclusion