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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Marxism and Social Movements: Reconstructed, Post-, and New Social Movements
2. Marxism and the Occupy Movement
3. Overview of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia
4. The Occupying Context: History and the Macro Context
5. The Proximate Context
6. Organizational Structures; Hierarchies and Power; Autonomy and Authenticities in Occupy
7. Ideologies and the Conflicts of Humanism and Rationality
8. Schisms Part One - Race, Liberals and Anarchy
9. Schisms Part Two - More Ideological Divides
10. Relations with the Outside
11. The Many Faces of Framing
12. Emergent Craziness: Frustrations, Hope, and Trust
Conclusion

About the author

By John Leveille

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Leveille, John J. Leveille
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498548427
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4842-7
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism