- Title
- Politics at a distance from the state: radical, South African and Zimbabwean praxis today
- Creator
- Helliker, Kirk D, van der Walt, Lucien
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71364
- Identifier
- vital:29837
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2016.1240792
- Description
- For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical social transformation with the capture of state power. The collapse of supposedly enabling states led recently to a crisis of left and working class politics. But this has also opened space for the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, labelled as ‘at a distance’ politics. These modes have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and have involved strands of anarchism and syndicalism, and autonomist Marxism. This article, an introduction to a collection of papers emerging from a 2012 conference of academics and activists in South Africa, aims to help articulate an understanding of social transformation from below that has been analytically and politically side-lined not only in South Africa (and Zimbabwe), but globally. In doing so, it provides a preliminary attempt to map and create a dialogue between three major positions within the broad category of ‘at a distance’ politics.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Helliker, K. and van der Walt, L., 2016. Politics at a distance from the state: radical, South African and Zimbabwean praxis today. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 34(3), pp.312-331., Journal of Contemporary African Studies volume 34 number 3 331 312 October 2016 0258-9001
- Rights
- Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Open Journals statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals)
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