Alternative futures and the present revisiting radical thinkers, texts and events / Ranabir Samaddar.

Author/creator Sam♯dd♯ra, Ra£̀‡ab♯±ra.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesCritiques and alternatives to capitalism
Contents Introduction : time, and the politics and poetics of alternative -- Karl Marx : colonialism, nation form, and social transformation -- Home, world, and an uncertain nation -- In the time of nations -- The problem of population : recalling Marx's critique of Malthus -- Populations and populism as a problematic in transformative politics -- Hegel's India and imperial imaginary of the universal -- Annihilation of caste and universalism of the oppressed -- Charles Tilly's theorising of contention -- Genocide : a most contentious word and concept of modern time -- The impossibility of politics : Brecht, Manto and two acts of literature -- Memories of the forgotten -- Settling account with the point of origin : Marx, Engels, and the Revolution of 1848 -- October Revolution as an alternative in the colonial and postcolonial time -- Occupy College Street, 1967-69 -- Crisis, biopolitics from below, and a new model of public power -- Layers of solidarity -- Epilogue.
Abstract "Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination of different possible futures from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that exist for conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2022054229
ISBN9781032404813 (hardback)
ISBN9781032404806 (paperback)
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