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The Communism of Love

An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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The Communism of Love

An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Exploring the meanings and powers of love from ancient Greece to the present day, Richard Gilman-Opalsky argues that what is called “love” by the best thinkers who have approached the subject is in fact the beating heart of communism—understood as a way of living, not as a form of government. Along the way, he reveals with clarity that the capitalist way of assigning value to things is incapable of appreciating what humans value most. Capitalism cannot value the experiences and relationships that make our lives worth living and can only destroy love by turning it into a commodity. The Communism of Love follows the struggles of love in different contexts of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and shows how the aspiration for love is as close as we may get to a universal communist aspiration.

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1849353921

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Unbounded Publics

Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory

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073912479X

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Imaginary Power, Real Horizons

The Practicality of Utopianism

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Imaginary Power, Real Horizons

The Practicality of Utopianism

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

A defense of the radical imagination from a scholar of social movements. Political theorist and philosopher Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s Imaginary Power, Real Horizons is a tribute to the imagination and to its necessity for liberatory struggle. “‘Impractical’ is the name given to anyone who imagines something radically other than what exists,” he writes. However, many things—such as the abolition of slavery—were dismissed as impractical before they came to be. In a warm, plainspoken manner, these essays chart the affects of creativity and utopianism through topics as varied as the cyclical nature of popular movements; the international history of May Day; the experience of teaching political theory and Marxism in contemporary China; and the revolutionary aspirations of Free Jazz. The human imagination is a real, world-creating power, and those who would declare otherwise have a poor understanding of history. Imaginary Power, Real Horizons is a call to action for those who would dare to dream of a society organized by a different logic than capitalism.

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1849355576

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Specters of Revolt

On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Specters of Revolt

On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the spectre of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is haunted by revolt, by the possibility of events that interrupt and disrupt the world, that throw its reality and justice into question. But recent revolt is neither decisively communist nor decisively Marxist. Gilman-Opalsky develops a theory of revolt that accounts for its diverse critical content about autonomy, everyday life, anxiety, experience, knowledge, and possibility. The 1994 uprising of the Mexican Zapatistas set the stage for new forms of revolt against a newly expanded power of capital. In the 20 years since, including the recent phase of global uprisings that began in 2008 with the Greek revolts, insurrection has spoken in the "Arab Spring" in Spain, Turkey, Brazil, and in the U.S. in Occupy Wall Street, Ferguson, and Baltimore, among other places. In light of recent global uprisings, Gilman-Opalsky aims to move beyond the critical theory of revolt to an understanding of revolt as theory itself. Making use of diverse sources from Raoul Vaneigem and Félix Guattari to Julia Kristeva and Raya Dunayevskaya, Spectres of Revolt explores upheaval as thinking, the intellect of insurrection, and philosophy from below.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1910924377

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The Communism of Love

An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Imaginary Power, Real Horizons

The Practicality of Utopianism

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Unbounded Publics

Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory

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Unbounded Publics

Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory

By: Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Unbounded Publics presents a theory of transgressive public spheres that aims to expand dangerously narrow political discourses. In this volume, social and political theorists, political scientists, philosophers, and activists alike will find important contributions to ongoing debates concerning social movements, identity politics, the works of JYrgen Habermas, globalization, socialist philosophy, the media, and the Mexican Zapatistas.

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0739124781

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