The Antagonistic Principle - Marxism and Political Action

In this important contribution to political theory, Massimo Modonesi develops the thesis that a Marxist theory of political action can be developed from the notion of antagonism, defined as a distinctive feature of struggle and of the political experience of insubordination.

About the author

Massimo Modonesi is Professor and Chair of the Political and Social Sciences Faculty at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the author of twelve books on social and political movements in Latin-America and on Marxist political theory. In English his most recent published work is Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy. Constructing the Political Subject (Pluto, 2014). He is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Gramsci Society.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Modonesi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2018
• EAN: 9789004322424
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32242-4
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Historical Materialism Book
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education