2019
DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.8
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Class and party : Daniel Bensaïd’s philosophy of strategy against the randomization of politics.

Abstract: This article argues for the centrality of the notion of class struggle in both political theory and praxis in order to counter what E. M. Wood, echoing P. Anderson (1983), has referred to as the «randomization of politics» (1986), namely a politics reduced to pure contingency where no causality between the social and the political is allowed. It suggests that class struggle is precisely the lost cause of radical politics, since class struggle operates as a synthetic principle informing a concept of society as … Show more

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