Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Throughout the chapters, my comments on utopia are reliant on the work of Ruth Levitas (1990; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2013). Defining utopia in a non- restrictive manner, as the desire for a better way of being, Levitas has long argued that utopianism is everywhere, across popular culture, political debates, social thought, and she has insisted on utopian analysis as an indis- pensable method (as archaeology, ontology and architecture) for the human sciences. See, in particular, Levitas (2013). 2. In 1977 Althusser (1978) declared a ‘crisis of Marxism’. See Keucheyan (2013) for an analysis of the period of Left defeat, 1977– 1993. 3. For an insightful, accessible, mordant Gramscian analysis of the various ‘Princes’ before us at this moment – anti- globalist/Occupy, nationalist, reli- gious, austerity/ re- asserted neo- liberal – see Worth (2013). 4. For proximate treatments of this current, see, for instance, el- Ojeili (2003); Prichard et al. (eds) (2012); Rubel and Crump (eds) (1987); Schecter (1994; 2007). Schecter (2007), for example, brings together a range of thinkers and traditions – Marx, Western Marxism, critical theory, syndicalism, council communism, guild socialism, anarchism, the surrealists and the situationists, Italian workerism, and Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari – drawing out ele- ments from each as a way forward for a reinvigorated Left that must combine a critique of political economy with a critique of everyday life and bio- power. 5. As just one instance of this partial quality, we might remark upon the absence from this map of ‘impossibilism’. For a discussion of impossibilism, see Coleman (1987). Similarly, guild socialism, and its major thinker G.
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