Constituting a Revolutionary Government
Term:
Spring 2012
Subject Code:
GPHI
Course Number:
6662
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.
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