List Of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Doing It Yourself: Direct Action Currents In Contemporary
Radical Activism
2. Tracking The Hegemony Of Hegemony: Classical Marxism And
Liberalism
3. Tracking The Hegemony Of Hegemony: Postmarxism And The New
Social Movements
4. Utopian Socialism Then …
5. … And Now
6. Ethics, Affinity, And The Coming Communities
7. Conclusion: Utopian Socialism Again And Again
Notes
References
Richard J. F. Day is Professor in the Department of Global Development at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a founder of the Critical U. community education project in Vancouver and has participated in food, housing and financial co-operatives. He is the author of Gramsci is Dead (Pluto, 2005).
'Not only an explosive break out from the demoralising horizons of
contemporary social democracy, but also an exuberant intellectual
dance-invitation extended to all mutant Marxists, autonomists and
species-being activists eager to catch the strains of a new
tune'
*Nick Dyer-Witheford, Associate Professor, University of Western
Ontario and author of Cyber-Marx: Cyclesand Circuits of Struggle in
High Technology Capitalism (University of Illinois, 1999)*
'Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the
academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen
instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant
book'
*Ann Hansen -sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up a
cruise-missile component factory, and is the author of Direct
Action: The Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla.*
'Reassesses from an anarchist perspective the 'logic of hegemony'
that unites classical Marxism and liberalism, and declares that
this logic has been 'exhausted' by recent social movements'
*Roger Farr, The Rain Review of Books*
'A bold and quite convincing statement, one that offers exceptional
insight into contemporary political activism'
*Shane Mulligan, Political Studies Review*
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