Lenin Reads Hegel

Negri, Antonio; Bove, Arianna

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“…This means that the essential transformations in the logic of state institutions, which dispute their sovereignty over the social body and reverse their inherent properties of controlling social processes and reproducing themselves, will inevitably multiply conflicts, complexities and contradictions (Azzellini 2013: 29; Mandel 1978: 163). The contradictory nature of this process is further reinforced by the fact that such a dualism of power is a revolutionary process of clash between two opposing forces, which cannot be truly institutionalised into a juridical relation, to the extent that civil war cannot become a component of the state (Negri 2014: 127). In conclusion, in the disjunctive syzefxis between social movements and progressive governments, social counter-power will still remain the principal agent of change as the social force which transgresses the capital–state complex.…”

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Commons’ movements and ‘progressive’ governments as dual power: The potential for social transformation in Europe

Broumas

2017

Capital & Class

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In the neoliberal era, social counter-power emerges as the main resurgent force to contend the capital–state complex, whether in the form of labour struggles or direct democratic movements or in the form of struggles for the preservation/diffusion of the commons. Political forces within these societies in motion do not play the role of revolutionary vanguards, instead they protect and facilitate the process of the social revolution by political or military means. At the negative pole of the duality, the failure to sustain social reproduction under extreme conditions of inequality and corruption gives rise either to ‘failed states’ or to progressive governments, which start building their hegemony in complex interrelation to grassroots movements. In this context, we are in need of subversive politics that weaken the bourgeois state by facilitating the emancipation of society.

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Section: Dual Power Dialecticsmentioning

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Commons’ movements and ‘progressive’ governments as dual power: The potential for social transformation in Europe

Broumas

2017

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Lenin Reads Hegel

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Commons’ movements and ‘progressive’ governments as dual power: The potential for social transformation in Europe

Commons’ movements and ‘progressive’ governments as dual power: The potential for social transformation in Europe

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