Translating passive revolution in Brazil

Roio, Marcos Del

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“…With reference to Scotland, Neil Davidson (2010) has identified a passive revolution occurring even before Gramsci' (Shields, 2006;Gray, 2010;Simon, 2010). Latin America has been an expecially fertile ground for examining the reach of passive revolution (Modonesi, 2014), with analyses ranging from Brazil (Del Roio, 2012), to Mexico (Morton, 2007a and2010a;Hesketh, 2010), to Bolivia (Hesketh and Morton, 2014). Nash (2013) and Wanner (2014) have instead provided sectorial understandings of passive revolution, related respectively to water governance in South Africa and the 'green economy' in international organisations.…”

Section: In Dialogue With Morton: Limiting the Continuum Of Passive Rmentioning

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Passive revolution revisited: From the Prison Notebooks to our ‘great and terrible world’

Roccu

2017

Capital & Class

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Building on the recent fertile season of studies on passive revolution, this article argues for the (re-)increasing relevance of the concept in these times of capitalist crisis. However, it is also argued that this renewed relevance should be predicated on a narrower definition of passive revolution than the one generally used in recent debates in critical International Political Economy. Returning to the Prison Notebooks, four elements are identified here as the conceptual core of passive revolution, to which Gramsci's admittedly varying uses of the phrase are implicitly anchored: an international precondition determining the necessity of restructuring on the national scale; a domestic precondition determining the specific form of this restructuring; a specific method through which passive revolution is effected; and a specific outcome which entails achieving the passivity of subaltern classes through the partial fulfilment and simultaneous displacement of their demands. Thus redefined, passive revolution becomes a valuable instrument for grasping the challenges facing the emergence of a subaltern bloc in the current organic crisis of capitalism.

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Section: In Dialogue With Morton: Limiting the Continuum Of Passive Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

Passive revolution revisited: From the Prison Notebooks to our ‘great and terrible world’

Roccu

2017

Capital & Class

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Passive revolution: a universal concept with geographical seats

Hesketh

2017

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In this article, I argue that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution makes a foundational contribution to International Relations (IR), yet has been relatively under appreciated by the broader discipline. Within the Historical Sociology of International Relations, uneven and combined development has recently been postulated as a key trans-historical law that provides a social theory of the ‘international’. Drawing from, but moving beyond these debates, I will argue that passive revolution is a key conditioning factor of capitalist modernity. I will demonstrate how the concept of passive revolution is the element that explains the connection between the universal process of uneven development and the manner in which specific combinations occur within the capitalist era as geopolitical pressures, in tandem with domestic social forces become internalised into geographically specific state forms. It therefore offers a corrective to the frequently aspatial view that is found in much of the literature in IR regarding uneven and combined development. Additionally, passive revolution provides a more politicised understanding of the present as well as an important theoretical lesson in relation to what needs to be done to affect alternative trajectories of development.

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Gramsci's Revolutions: Passive and Permanent

Thomas

2018

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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Antonio Gramsci's notion of “passive revolution” has often been understood as a distinctive historical narrative, political concept, or theory of state formation. This article proposes to consider it instead as a “heuristic formula” within the “lexical architecture” of the Prison Notebooks. Based upon a diachronic and contextualist analysis of the usage of the formula, I argue that Gramsci's research on passive revolution emerged as a critical element within the development of his own distinctive conception of the “sublation” and “actualization” of the slogan of “the revolution in permanence.” Attending to this dialectical relationship allows the political and strategic dimensions of passive revolution to be highlighted, and suggests new paths of research for the debate about its analytic fertility and contemporary relevance.

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Translating passive revolution in Brazil

Cited by 10 publications

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Passive revolution revisited: From the Prison Notebooks to our ‘great and terrible world’

Passive revolution revisited: From the Prison Notebooks to our ‘great and terrible world’

Passive revolution: a universal concept with geographical seats

Gramsci's Revolutions: Passive and Permanent

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