The Politics of the Street
Commune and Party in the Age of Riots
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Smith (0000-0002-6143-0421, corresponding author), Jason E Smith |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 687-700 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-2803580 |
| OpenAlex | W2314031913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay situates recent calls for a return to the organizational form of the party by Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean in the current historical conjuncture. This conjuncture is described as an "age of riots"; this age, in turn, is defined both by a global capitalist crisis and an emergent "politics of the street." The limits of this form of politics, I argue, give real urgency to the felt need for a new type of party form. My exploration of this question has recourse to a little-known text by Louis Althusser on the innovations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, in particular the development of organs of power external to the Party. I conclude with a consideration of the way in which the notion of the commune poses a countermodel for thinking political organization that any current reconsideration of the party form must address
Cultural revolution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political theory and Gramsci
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |