By recognising plural identities and enabling participation the notion of the communist public sphere comes into its own as a political society. Making a distinction between the state and government, it is possible to develop the anti-statist character of democracy without thereby being committed to an antipolitical stance. Such a notion entails not the end of politics but its realisation in the everyday affairs of the demos within a conception of self-government. This is where the conception of the proletarian public sphere (or spheres) becomes important and its absence in socialist theory and practice becomes evident. The argument delineates Marx's definition of democratisation, seeking its realisation outside of and against the abstract form of the state. This volume defends Marx’s early definition of ‘true democracy’ as entailing the dissolution of the state and of (capitalistically organised, inegalitarian, unpluralist) civil society as a single process. These final two volumes (8 and 9) seek to tie together the themes of true democracy, social control and self-mediation, affirmative materialism, community and communist individuality within a conception of commune democracy.
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Public life – libertarian communalism – social power and the state – conscious control – free association – commune democracy – the lost traditions of anarchism and marxism – postmarxism – democratisation – radical democracy – democracy as method – Norberto Bobbio, democracy and socialism – the social public." The concept of on active citizenship rooted in society is distinguished from the abstract citizenship conceded by the state, reading Marx in opposition to centralised, bureaucratised elitist state politics. This means defining democratisation as a repoliticisation, implying the extension of public spaces through a decentralisation resulting from the relocation of power from the abstracted political realm to the social realm. This argues that Marx is engaged above all in an attempt to formulate a new politics - specifically, a communist politics based upon the reintegration of political and social relationships, the overcoming of the state and civil society dualism and the dissolution of both spheres. "The argument of this book attempts to show the relevance of Marx's work to the attempt to create a new politics of citizenship.
Self-determination Social self-determination versus capital's objective determinism - alien control - the monopolisation of power/alienation of control - solidary self-determination - active materialism - practical-sensuous experience - conscious, collective control of social relations - enselfment and empowerment." The Bureaucratisation of the World Complexity - the division of labour - bureaucratisation and modernity - Weber's 'objective indispensability' - democratisation versus bureaucratisation - bureaucratisation, power and class interests - democratisation and institutional separation - the intransigence of social institutions. "The teleology of labour - the active element of alienation - alienation and class - the value form and social labour - necessary vs surplus labour - crisis and class struggle - Marxism and modernity - rationalisation and alienation - against alienating separations and dualisms - the capital system and class rationality - the substantive irrationality of capital's fetish relations the unnatural spirit of capitalism - Max Weber, rationality and socialism - the dualism of formal and substantive rationality – impersonality and instrumental rationality - the dialectic of enlightenment – rationalisation and socialism – totalitarianism: a general alienation - life world vs system world - the violence and tyranny of abstraction - the state as abstraction - the everyday world of reciprocity versus abstracted rationalism - the colonisation of the life world - religiosity and regulation - the administration of society - institutionalised power: mediation and abstraction – the standardisation and the subordination of the individual - the critique of uniformity, conformity and regimentation - Weber and Foucault - the surveillance of populations - the domination of the exchange principle - the domination of nature - the society-nature dialectic.
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