Fordecades,mostanti-capitalistandanti-imperialistmovementsidentifiedradicalchangewithcapturingstatepower.Thecollapseofstatistprojectsfromthe1970sfosteredbothneo-liberalismandaglobalcrisisofleftandworking-classpolitics.Butitalsoopenedspaceforrediscoveringdemocratic,society-centeredandanti-capitalistmodesofbottom-upchange,operatingatadistancefromthestate.ThisresurgentalternativehasinfluencedtheZapatistasinMexico,RojavainSyria,Occupy,andindependentunionsandstrugglesworldwidearoundausterity,land,andthecity.Itslineagesincludeanarchism,syndicalism,autonomistMarxism,philosopherslikeAlainBadiou,andpopularpraxis.Thispathbreakingvolumehelpsrecoverthisoncesidelinedpolitics,withafocusonSouthAfricaandZimbabwe.Itincludesadossieroftextsfromacenturyofanarchists,syndicalists,radicalunionists,andanti-apartheidactivistsinSouthAfrica.OriginatinginanAfricansummitofscholars,socialmovements,andanti-apartheidveterans,thisbookalsofeaturesaprefacefromJohnHolloway.
