From Red to Green

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ID11050913
AuthorsFerenc Feher, A Heller (0000-0003-3218-3713)
Year1984
Volume1984
Issue59
Pages35-44
Publication date1984-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTelos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X
PublisherTelos Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3817/0384059035
OpenAlexW1998680298
LanguageEN
Citations received14

The most important systematic analysis of social movements to date has been Touraine's The Voice and the Eye. Here, one can almost paraphrase Marx's famous dictum: for the French sociologist, the history of all societies is a history of movements. In identifying movements with social classes, Touraine negotiates a radical turn from system theories to a strong version of action theory and breaks with the Procrustean framework of an Althusserian-Poulantzasian structuralism in which everything is accounted for once the economically based class equivalent has been found. For Touraine, movements emerge and diversify in the process of their challenging “historicity” — a key concept derived from Castoriadis’ central category, the imaginary institution

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