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ASSEMBLY
This will be the launch title for Oxford University Press's exciting new series, Heretical Thought.
For readers of Piketty and Zizek, and other such radical, subversive philosophers, ASSEMBLY begins and ends with questions of leadership in social movements and progressive politics. Each year, all across the globe, we witness the eruption of leaderless social movements. These movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces and governments disoriented and perplexed. Activists, too, struggle to harness the potential of these horizontal movements. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change and create a new, more democratic and just society?
With the rise of right-wing political parties in many countries, the question of how to organize democratically and effectively has become increasingly urgent. Although today's leaderless political organizations are not sufficient, a return to traditional, centralized forms of political leadership is neither desirable nor possible. Instead, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue, familiar roles must be reversed: leaders should be responsible for short-term, tactical action, but it is the multitude that must drive strategy. In other words, if these new social movements are to achieve meaningful revolution, they must invent effective modes of assembly and decision-making structures that rely on the broadest democratic base.
Drawing on ideas developed through their well-known EMPIRE trilogy, Hardt and Negri have produced, in ASSEMBLY, a timely proposal for how current large-scale horizontal movements can develop the capacities for political strategy and decision-making to effect lasting and democratic change.
MICHAEL HARDT and ANTONIO NEGRI are the co-authors of EMPIRE, MULTITUDE, COMMONWEALTH, and DECLARATION. Hardt is a Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University, and Negri has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the Unversity of Padua.
With the rise of right-wing political parties in many countries, the question of how to organize democratically and effectively has become increasingly urgent. Although today's leaderless political organizations are not sufficient, a return to traditional, centralized forms of political leadership is neither desirable nor possible. Instead, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue, familiar roles must be reversed: leaders should be responsible for short-term, tactical action, but it is the multitude that must drive strategy. In other words, if these new social movements are to achieve meaningful revolution, they must invent effective modes of assembly and decision-making structures that rely on the broadest democratic base.
Drawing on ideas developed through their well-known EMPIRE trilogy, Hardt and Negri have produced, in ASSEMBLY, a timely proposal for how current large-scale horizontal movements can develop the capacities for political strategy and decision-making to effect lasting and democratic change.
MICHAEL HARDT and ANTONIO NEGRI are the co-authors of EMPIRE, MULTITUDE, COMMONWEALTH, and DECLARATION. Hardt is a Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University, and Negri has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the Unversity of Padua.
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Published 2017-10-01 by Oxford University Press |