Miguel Abensour’s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an “ unknown Marx” who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and. The year finally saw the appearance of an English translation of Miguel Abensour’s groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian political. Review of Miguel Abensour, Democracy Against the State. Marx and the Machiavellian moment (Cambridge) in Parallax, (), The published.
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Critique de la Politique: In the end Abensour tries to find a positive politics while having to acknowledge the overriding negativity of Marx’s conception of politics. Crazyarms marked it as to-read May 26, Francis Cheneval – – Palgrave-Macmillan.
Democratic praxis is defined in opposition to the state: True democracy does not entail the political and economic power ofthe state, but it does not dream of a post-political societyeither. Pocock’s Politics of History. Aung Kaung Sett aganist it as to-read May 26, Peirce Society 46 2: Alan marked it as to-read Jan 20, Table of contents Reviews Features Translator’s Introduction: In his provocative defense of ‘insurgent democracy,’ Abensour shows the abiding power of a libertarianism unafraid to acknowledge its debt to anarchist thought and practice.
The Utopia of the Rational State Chapter 2: Instead, Abensour argues, the demos determines the constitution of the political. Aiminoes marked it as to-read Dec 11, Published February 7th by Polity Press first published On the Idea and Principles of Multilateral Democracy.
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Peirce Society 46 2. According ahensour Abensour, Marx conceptualises democratic politics as an ongoing battle against political alienation, as an attempt to prevent the objectification of democratic life from becoming a reified and alienated expression of this life.
Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement
Thus there is a Machiavellian moment of political decision in Marx that exceeds the identification of politics with the State. Dana Simmons – – History of European Ideas 38 2: In addition to the political question, we should also investigate the ways in which Marx turned political economy into a weapon, as Harry Cleaver calls it, abenssour working-class emancipation.
thee Nevertheless, there are important differences between them: Democracy is “won” by a people forewarned that any dissolution of the political realm in its independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a genuinely human existence.
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On the other hand, Marx amplifies the necessity of smashing the modern state.