The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action: Historical Materialism

Massimo Modonesi is Professor and Chair of the Political and Social Sciences Faculty at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the author of twelve books on social and political movements in Latin-America and on Marxist political theory. In English his most recent published work is Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy. Constructing the Political Subject (Pluto, 2014). He is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Gramsci Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One

1. Coordinates of a Marxist Theory of Political Action
2. Notes on the Gramscian Concept of Subaltern Classes
3. Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy
4. Antagonism as Principle
5. Subalternisation and Passive Revolution

Part Two

Afterword - Sergio Tamayo

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