Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
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"Now, the people!" These words are an invitation to action. They allude to the hope of a response to the ruination of the beauty the world and the deadly intensification of the ecological crisis. They refer to the desire to turn a page in the history of human civilisation after the disasters created by the reign of finance. They call for permanent insubordination against an unjust and destructive world order. Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended these principles as the candidate of La France insoumise in France's 2022 presidential elections, where he came within a whisker of breaking through into the second round against Emmanuel Macron, representative of the bourgeois political bloc.
Action is blind without theory. Theory is vain without action. Politician and theorist Mélenchon proposes here an ambitious analytical framework for sorting out and interpreting the facts that face us at this turning point in the history of the world. He has worked on this major work over the last fifteen years, at a time when citizens' revolutions were erupting in the four corners of the world, from the Maghreb to New York, from Chile to Lebanon, via the French yellow vest protests. Mélenchon proposes here a theory of the era of the people and the citizens' revolution as a strategic orientation and a way of grasping the world today. Its aim is to help us to think in order to act and go on to change the world.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon was born in Morocco in 1951. He was for many years a leading member of the French Socialist Party, serving as a minister in the government of Lionel Jospin. He broke with the Socialists in 2008 and founded the organisation that is now La France Insoumise. He stood in the presidential elections of 2012, 2017 and 2024, and in the latter came very close to beating the far right candidate Marine Le Pen to get into the run-off. He is the author of twenty books.
Foreword by David Broder
Introduction: The Sound and the Fury of a New Era
UNSUSTAINABLE
1 The Force of Numbers
2 The New Space-Time
3 The Age of Uncertainty
4 The Noosphere
5 Our Involuntary Servitude
6 The Rights of the Species
II
THE NEW BASES OF SOCIAL CONFLICT, AND ITS NEW PROTAGONISTS
7 The City
8 Networks
9 The People
III
THE CITIZENS' REVOLUTION
10 The Grain of Sand
11 The Revolution's New Clothes
IV
THE NEW EL DORADO
12 Networked Capitalism
V
THE EMERGENCE OF A SINGLE HUMAN PEOPLE
13 An Alter-globalising Diplomacy
14 Humanity's New Frontiers
Conclusion: The Moral of History
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | David Broder |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80429-794-1 / 1804297941 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80429-794-0 / 9781804297940 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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