We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism

by Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox

Book Overview

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - 'ya basta ' - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North. From this network...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745334814
• ISBN13: 9780745334813
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.4"