Blood and Progress
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1060-1 (ISBN)
From ending the feudal order to struggling against colonial rule; from revolts against slavery to the Bolshevik, Chinese and Cuban revolutions; and from ending foreign occupations to civil wars to overthrow dictators, violent means are seen to justify the non-violent ends. 'Necessary violence' was taken for granted by revolutionaries inspired by Marx, Lenin, Mao and Castro, and countless others. Nick Hewlett places the objectives of non-violence and peace centre-stage to give you a new understanding of violence in revolt. He argues that making the goal of a wholly peaceful society explicit makes an important difference to how we approach and understand violence in pursuit of emancipation.
Nick Hewlett is Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction
1. Non-violence as an imperative goalUtopiasModernity, liberalism and non-violence The Post-war period in the West Elias, Pinker and the ‘civilizing thesis’Feminism, feminization and maternalismModern medicine
2. Capitalism, communism and violenceThe other side of modernity Communism and violenceUS violence abroad since 1945Structural violenceLate capitalism and its futures
3. Castro, humanism and revolutionHistory will absolve meCuba’s history of violenceCastro’s ethics of violenceInfluences on Castro’s thoughtCuba and the USA With and beyond Castro
4. Marx, Engels and the place of violence in historyEngels’s theory of GewaltLenin and the October RevolutionThe structural violence of modernity(Re-)interpreting and complementing Marx and Engels’s ethics of violenceBalibar’s critique of Marx on violence
5. Terror and terrorismDefining TerrorismTerrorism from above, terrorism from below The Middle East Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
ConclusionsReferences and bibliographyIndex
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-1060-X / 147441060X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-1060-1 / 9781474410601 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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