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Revolutionary immanence? Exploring the political idea of social movements

by Soumitra Ghoshs Introduction: theories of movements, but where is the praxis? Murray Bookchin once commented that the tragedy of Marxism was that it had become a subject of cloistered academic seminars and not living movements (Bookchin 2015). Today’s anti-capitalist mobilisations do not call themselves Marxists, he observed. The recorded experiences of the various square movements, insurrections and revolutions of recent years tend to bear this out. Precious few important theoretical works […]