Searching for Marx in the Occupy movement /

This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to understand and explain the organization and activities of this protest group.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leveille, John J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Temas:
Occupy movement > United States.
Social movements > United States.
Marxian school of sociology.
Mouvement des indignés > États-Unis.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis.
Sociologie marxiste.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Marxian school of sociology
Occupy movement
Social movements
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Marxism and social movements: reconstructed, post-, and new social movements
  • Marxism and the Occupy movement
  • Overview of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia
  • The occupying context: history and the macro context
  • The proximate context
  • Organizational structures; hierarchies and power; autonomy and authenticities in Occupy
  • Ideologies and the conflicts of humanism and rationality
  • Schisms part one
  • race, liberals and anarchy
  • Schisms part two
  • more ideological divides
  • Relations with the outside
  • The many faces of framing
  • Emergent craziness: frustrations, hope, and trust
  • Conclusion.

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