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After Post-Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism

Dean, Jodi Japhy Wilson ; Erik Swyngedouw

Post-Political and its Discontents, 2014, p.261-278

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

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  • Título:
    After Post-Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism
  • Autor: Dean, Jodi
  • Japhy Wilson ; Erik Swyngedouw
  • Assuntos: Behavioral sciences ; Capitalism ; Communism ; Conflict ; Democracy ; Economic disciplines ; Economic liberalism ; Economic theory ; Economics ; Financial economics ; Financial markets ; Government ; Human behavior ; Left wing politics ; National politics ; Political activism ; Political conflict ; Political ideologies ; Political movements ; Political philosophy ; Political processes ; Political protests ; Political regimes ; Political science ; Political science & theory ; Political sociology ; Political spectrum ; Political systems ; Politics ; Social behavior ; Social interaction ; Wall Street
  • É parte de: Post-Political and its Discontents, 2014, p.261-278
  • Descrição: In 2011, Europe and the USA experienced the most significant political movement on the Left since 1968. Weirdly, a vocal portion of those participating claimed that the occupations, demonstrations and assemblies were not in fact political: theirs was a politics of no politics. Why would they say this?On the one hand, people were signalling that they were not interested in the usual politics of cynical, compromised parties. They were alerting everyone – governments, neighbours, world – that they were not going to be contained, channelled and reduced to the corrupted terms of the dominant electoral systems. But the other, speculative, hand is more interesting: people were claiming that their movements were not political because they had absorbed the ideological message of democratic hegemony – ours is a post-political era. Democracy has won. Since it has defeated all competing political ideologies, the only remaining political task is extending it, enforcing it, tweaking the procedures, refining the process. In such an era, the primary concerns are inclusion, participation and discussion rather than the fundamental antagonism of class conflict.Spain, Greece, Occupy, on the heels of and inspired by Tunisia and Egypt, allied with protests against cuts in the UK and Madison, Wisconsin, these movements of hundreds of thousands of people in protest against inequality, austerity and the expropriation of lives and futures reset the political course of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Construing them in post-political terms not only repeated a serious theoretical mistake, but also unnecessarily fettered their movement toward economic egalitarianism. Occupiers, the precarious and those resisting austerity too often spoke and thought in post-political terms of democracy even as their struggles pushed in directions historically associated with the name communism.Two steps backDuring the 1990s, a peculiar diagnosis of the political condition of Europe and the US became prominent. We were said to be ‘postpolitical’. This was a curious diagnosis for various reasons. The countries formerly part of the Soviet bloc were actively writing new constitutions and developing new political practices. The US Right was engaged in rabid, focused, culture wars at multiple levels.
  • Editor: United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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