Book
The Provisional Power
Marx and Politics as a Critique of Society
-
Maurizio Ricciardi
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
Purchasable on brill.com
Purchase Book
About this book
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 journalist, 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.
Author / Editor information
Maurizio Ricciardi, Ph.D. (1996), University of Torino, is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs, translations and many essays on social and political concepts. He is co-editor of Global Marx (Brill, 2023).
Topics
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 5, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004699168
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
171
eBook ISBN:
9789004699168
Keywords for this book
Dominion; State; Democracy; Dictature; Government; Colonialism; Revolution; Capitalism; Proletariat; Working class; Individualism; Society; Anachronism
Audience(s) for this book
This book is geared towards all who are interested in the history of political thought, critical theory, political theory, Marxism and Karl Marx’s thought.
