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Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action

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Editors:
  1. Adrián Piva

    1. University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  2. Agustín Santella

    1. University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Provides resources on social conflicts, struggles and social movements from a Marxist perspective
  • Argues that much of social movement theory has ignored class analysis and the embeddedness within capitalism
  • Highlights the inadequacies of traditional Marxist concepts in analyzing certain aspect of collective actions

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Adrián Piva, Agustín Santella
    Pages 1-26

  3. From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition

    • Adrián Piva
    Pages 27-47

  4. Class Formation and Collective Action from a Marxist Perspective

    • Agustín Santella
    Pages 49-74

  5. From Mechanisms to Dynamics: How to Embed Social Movement Studies Within Historical Materialism

    • Anne Engelhardt, Madelaine Moore
    Pages 75-104

  6. The Denial of Social Classes in the Theory of Collective Contentious Action

    • Nicolás Iñigo Carrera, María Celia Cotarelo
    Pages 105-117

  7. On Dignity: Reflections on the Rationality of Insurrectional Actions

    • Alberto Bonnet
    Pages 119-135

  8. A Marxist Perspective on Workers’ Collective Action

    • Maurizio Atzeni
    Pages 137-162

  9. Work, Reproduction and Informality: Challenges for a Marxist Politics of Labour

    • Jörg Nowak
    Pages 163-188

  10. Gramsci, Theoretician of Political Subjectivation: The Subalternity–Autonomy–Hegemony Triad

    • Massimo Modonesi
    Pages 189-205

  11. Surplus Populations, Working-Class Struggles and Crises of Capitalism: A World-Historical Materialist Reconceptualization

    • Şahan Savaş Karataşlı
    Pages 207-249

  12. Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies

    • Alexander Gallas
    Pages 251-280

  13. About the Old and New “Class Maps”: Notes on the Formation of the Working Class

    • Julia Soul, Agustín Santella
    Pages 281-305

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 307-318
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About this book

This book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism, both theoretical and methodological, is scarce. The objective of this volume is the collection of works developing a critical reflection on the categories of theories about contentious collective action and social movements from a Marxist perspective. In order to better understand these phenomena and go beyond their mere case description, the theory needs to be improved. To that end, the book also promotes the debate between Marxisms and the collective action and new social movements in a renewed way. Here different Marxist arguments consider not only their methodological and ideological bias, but also the specific conceptual contributions of those theories.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Adrián Piva, Agustín Santella

About the editors

Adrián Piva is Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). 



Agustín Santella is Researcher at National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET) and Graduate Professor at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action

  • Editors: Adrián Piva, Agustín Santella

  • Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12474-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12473-0Published: 14 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12476-1Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12474-7Published: 13 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7123

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 318

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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