What Would It Mean To Win

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Movements become apparent as movements' at times of acceleration and expansion. In these heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no membership lists - everybody is too engaged in creating the new. But movements can also become those strange political groups of yesteryear, arguing about history as worlds pass by. Sometimes all it takes to get moving again is a nudge in a new direction. Turbulence Collective think now is a good time for them to ask: What is winning What would it mean to win'

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"Where is the movement today Where is it going Are we winning The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions. There are no easy answers, but the discussion is always insightful and provocative as the writers bravely take on the challenge of charting the directions for the Left at a time of ecological crisis, economic collapse, and political disillusionment."
--Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South

"Turbulence presents an exciting brand of political theorising that is directed and inspired by current strategic questions for activism. This kind of innovative thinking, which emerges from the context of the movements, opens new paths for rebellion and the creation of real social alternatives."
--Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth, Multitude and Empire.

"The history of the past half-century and particularly the last decade is as easily told as a series of victories as defeats, maybe best as both. Sometimes we won--and this is what makes the What Does It Mean to Win anthology such a powerful vision of the possible and the seldom-seen present. The authors of this book connect some of the more remarkable events of the last decade--in Oaxaca, in the banlieus of Paris, in the crises of neoliberalism--into a constellation of possibilities and demands, demands on the world but also demands on the readers, to think afresh of what is possible and what it takes to get there. As one author begins, 'The new movements embodied and posited deliberate reactions to the practical and theoretical failures of previous political approaches on the left.' This is the book about what came after the failures, and what's to come"
--Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark and A Paradise Built in Hell.

Author Bio

Turbulence Collective is a publishing project with an aim to carve out space where difficult debates and investigations into current political realities can be carried out. John Holloway is a lawyer, a Marxist-oriented sociologist, and a philosopher whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico.