Markus Lundström

Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy (eBook, PDF)

The Impossible Argument

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In spring of 2013, a wave of urban riots swept across Sweden after police shot an elderly man in his own home. When community residents from his marginalized city-district demanded an official apology, they were ignored. The anti-police insurgences that followed addressed deep problems of the Swedish welfare state, and the official responses revealed glitches built into democracy itself. In this updated edition of Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy: The Impossible Argument, sociologist and historian Markus Lundström explores the boundaries of Swedish democracy. He probes in-depth interviews with community residents to explain how the 2013 riots intensified a profound, democratic conflict: the social divide between the governors and the governed. Resistance to this divide is then traced through the defiance of governance and approaches to democracy in the history of anarchist thought. This book offers an original introduction to anarchism. It relates the diversity of anarchist thought to anti-police riots and the radicalization of democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639994
• Artikelnr.: 66022373

Autorenporträt

Markus Lundström is the author of The Making of Resistance: Brazil's Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment, along with several articles venturing into the fields of anarchist, fascist, posthumanist and social movement studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition
1. The Search for Radical Democracy
2. Anti-Police Riots in Sweden
2.1 ?We would never call the cops?
2.2 ?The fires continued?
2.3 ?Threat to democracy?
3. Anarchism and Democracy
3.1 Anarchist Critique
3.2 Anarchist Reclamation
3.3 Reclaimed Critique
4. The Impossible Argument
Bibliography
Index