Frontier Socialism: Self-Organisation and Anti-Capitalism Monica Quirico

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• ISBN 10: 3030523713
• ISBN 13: 9783030523718
• Author: Monica Quirico

Considering the history of workers’ and socialist movements in Europe, Frontier Socialism focuses on unconventional forms of anti-capitalist thought, particularly by examining several militant-intellectuals whose legacy is of particular interest for those aiming for a radical critique of capitalism. Following on the work of Michael Löwy, Quirico & Ragona identify relationships of “elective affinity” between figures who might appear different and dissimilar, at least at first glance: the German Anarchist Gustav Landauer, the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai, the German communist Paul Mattick, the Italian Socialist Raniero Panzieri, the Greek-born French euro-communist Nikos Poulantzas, the German-born Swedish Social Democrat Rudolf Meidner, and the French social scientist Alain Bihr as well as two historical struggle experiences, the Spanish Republic and the Italian revolutionary group “Lotta continua”. Frontier Socialism then analyzes these thinkers’ and experiences’ respective paths to socialism based on and achieved through self-organization and self-government, not to build a new tradition but to suggest a path forward for both research and political activism.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. “Revolution Is Not What the Revolutionaries Believe It to Be”: Gustav Landauer (1870–1919)
3. Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation: Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)
Part I. Interlude 1: Resistance or Revolution? The Spanish Civil War
4. Self-Management and Communism: Paul Mattick (1904–1981)
5. Workers’ Struggles Under Neocapitalism: Raniero Panzieri (1921–1964)
Part II. Interlude 2: Lotta Continua: The Dilemmas of a Revolutionary Group Between the Hot Autumn and the Restoration of Capitalism
6. Revolutionary Reformism: Rudolf Meidner (1914–2015)
7. A Communist Theory of Politics: Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979)
8. In the Midst of the Crisis
9. (Tentative) Conclusions

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