The Provisional Power:Marx and Politics As a Critique of Society (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 286)

by: Maurizio Ricciardi (Author)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Publication Date: 2024/8/8

Language: English

Print Length: 188 pages

ISBN-10: 9004699155

ISBN-13: 9789004699151

Book Description

In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a joualist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers' power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.

About the Author

In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a joualist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers' power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.