This book argues that the inventive strategic and organizational contexts that give rise to the black bloc tactic constitute a new political expression of class and, more forcefully, constitute the meaning of class politics for the late 20th and 21st century.
Robert F. Carley is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station. He most recent work appears in Rethinking Marxism and he is the author of Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and The Politics of Interpretation (Forthcoming) and Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines (Lexington, 2016).
Preface
1. Introduction: Marxism, Critical, and Radical Theory
2. Class, Organicity, and Autonomy: A Critique of Post-Autonomist Conceptions of Hegemony and Political Practice
3. Marcuse and Social Protest: Disruption and Continuance of the Radical Tradition in Critical Theory
4. An Analysis of the Black Bloc Tactic: Tactics as a Cultural Practice
5. References
About the Author