ISBN:
9781032054162
,
9781032054148
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 157 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boggs, Carl Fugitive politics
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Political ecology
;
Environmentalism Political aspects
;
Environmental policy
;
Elite (Social sciences) Political activity
;
Corporate power
;
Business and politics
;
Philosophy, Marxist
;
Marxismus
;
Politik
;
Ökologie
;
Theorie
Abstract:
"Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia. Across eight chapters, Carl Boggs explores how systemic change may be achieved within the current system, while detailing attempts at achieving change within nation states. Boggs states that any notion of revolution seems fanciful in the current climate, contending that controlling elites have concentrated their hold on corporate power along three self-serving fronts: technology (Big Tech) and the surveillance order, militarism and the warfare state, intensification of globalized power. Combined with this Boggs cites the fundamental absence of revolutionary counter-forces, arguing that after decades of subservice relevant, allied to the rise of identity politics and social movements, the Marxist theoretical legacy is now exhausted, and will not provide an exit from the crisis. Boggs concludes that the only possibility for fundamental change will come from an open style of politics, in the Jacobin tradition, operating within the overall structures of the current democratic state. Written for both an academic and general readership, in the US and beyond, Fugitive Politics will be of vital importance to those studying political theory, political philosophy, political history, Marxism and Marxist theory, authoritarian politics, ecology, environmental politics, and climate politics"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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