Constituting A Revolutionary Government(2)
Term:
Spring 2012
Subject Code:
GPOL
Course Number:
6430
This
course examines what it might mean to constitute a revolutionary government. Questions
to be addressed include: How to analyze the complexity of revolutionary
possibility? How to sustain mobilizations and mass movements that seek a
radical transformation of capitalism? How to organize a state with the ultimate
aim of its withering away? Readings will
include texts by Rousseau; Marx;
Luxemburg; Lenin; Mao; Arendt; Badiou; and Balibar.
This course will be taught by Drucilla Cornell
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