Anarchism and social revolution : an anarchist politics of the transitionary state / Brian Williams.
2023
HX833
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Title
Anarchism and social revolution : an anarchist politics of the transitionary state / Brian Williams.
Author
Williams, Brian, author.
ISBN
9783031394621 (electronic bk.)
3031394623 (electronic bk.)
9783031394614
3031394615
3031394623 (electronic bk.)
9783031394614
3031394615
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 412 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-39462-1 doi
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HX833
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.5/7
Summary
This monograph provides an update to anarchist philosophy, advocating for a paradigm shift beyond neoliberalism and liberal democracy. The book's central thesis has two components. First, it is argued that the maximization of equal liberty requires historical progress beyond the sovereign state system. In contrast to Fukuyama’s (1992) argument that liberal democracy is the end of history, it is argued that liberalism contains two contradictions (socioeconomic inequality and the shortcoming in equal liberty inherent to state power) with the potential to propel history further. This book's argument -- libertarian social democracy -- provides a framework to guide that final stage of history. Second, while anarchist philosophy offers a vision beyond the sovereign state, it can be rendered more suitable as an alternative paradigm. Specifically, it is argued that anarchism is hampered by its traditional adherence to prefigurative strategy, according to which the state cannot be used as a means to achieve a free and equal society. By contrast, libertarian social democracy incorporates a role for a democratic transitionary state (described here as gradualist anarchism) thus addressing mainstream "Hobbesian" concerns about bad anarchy (where decentralization yields a net loss in equal liberty). In so doing, the book reveals the full spectrum of anarchist strategy from prefigurative to gradualist.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 9, 2023).
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Contributions to political science, 2198-7297
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Anarchism
Chapter 1: Anarchism in the Political Realm
Chapter 2: Anarchism in the Economic Realm
Chapter 3: Anarchism in the Cultural Realm
Part II: Social Revolution
Chapter 4: An Elite Theory of United States Politics
Chapter 5: The Political Landscape
Chapter 6: Revolutionary Objectives
Chapter 7: Revolutionary Strategy
Conclusion-Works Cited
Index.
Introduction
Part I: Anarchism
Chapter 1: Anarchism in the Political Realm
Chapter 2: Anarchism in the Economic Realm
Chapter 3: Anarchism in the Cultural Realm
Part II: Social Revolution
Chapter 4: An Elite Theory of United States Politics
Chapter 5: The Political Landscape
Chapter 6: Revolutionary Objectives
Chapter 7: Revolutionary Strategy
Conclusion-Works Cited
Index.