@article{435819,
      author = {Abensour, Miguel. and Blechman, Max. and Breaugh, Martin.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435819},
      title = {Democracy against the state : Marx and the Machiavellian  moment /},
      publisher = {Polity,},
      abstract = {In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," the  young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose  advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the  state. Miguel Abensourʹs rigorous interpretation of this  seminal text reveals an "unknown Marx" who undermines the  identification of democracy with the state and defends a  historically occluded form of politics. True democracy does  not entail the political and economic power of the state,  but it does not dream of a post-political society either.  On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a  demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles,  a politics that counters political bureaucracy and  representation. Democracy is "won" by a people forewarned  that any dissolution of the political realm in its  independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount  to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a  genuinely human existence. In this explicitly heterodox  reading of Marx, Miguel Abensour proposes a theory of  "insurgent" democracy that makes political liberty  synonymous with a living critique of domination. -- Back  cover.},
      recid = {435819},
      pages = {xlvi, 149 p. ;},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      year = {2011},
}