Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Dispersing Power in Bolivia: Tending the ‘Sacred Fire’ of Social Movements

Here's a review of a Zibechi's Dispersing Power, a book i recommend. His works, like James C. Scott's, remind us that historical materialism, dialectics, social theory etc, or at least the perception of them, are based on an orientation, or cultural presuppositions, which are Western and not universally shared. Liberation Theory (as I like to call the historical development of the world's thought on the topic of social justice) is much broader than Hobbes, Locke, Stirner, Voltaire, Marx, Kropotkin, Lenin, Nietsche, Lukacs, Foucault, Adorno etc. For me Zibechi and Scott (and perhaps to a lesser but more entertaining extent Andrej Grubacic) represent the best writing on social movement phenomenology from an anarchist perspective.

http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/americas/2444-dispersing-power-in-bolivia-tending-the-sacred-fire-of-social-movements