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The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism

By John Markoff; Hillary Lazar; Benjamin S. Case; Daniel P. Burridge

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781009495240, 9781009495219, 9781009495226
DOI
10.1017/9781009495219
Google Books ID
LBJY0AEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11110133 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Elements; Elements in Contentious Politics
Pages
80\90
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Politics
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-01-14 22:56:27
AnarchismDemocracyglobalizationRevolutionSocial Movements

Description

Leftwing activism of recent decades exhibits an anarchist turn evident in quantitative indicators like mentions of anarchists in news reports and by activists adopting anarchist modes of organization, tactics, and social goals-whether or not they claim that label. The authors of this Element argue that the very crises that generated radical mobilizations since the turn of the millennium have both led activists to reject other strategies for social transformation and to see anarchist practices as appropriate to the challenges of our time. This turn is clearly apparent in the Americas and Europe, and has reverberations on an even broader transnational, perhaps global, scale. This suggests the need for research on social movements to consider anarchists and other marginalized radical traditions more fully, not just as objects of study, but as important sources of theory.

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