Thinking the Revolution as the Creation of Universal – Non-etatist, Non-representative, Non-identitarian – Political Space ‘for All’ Cover Image

Misliti revoluciju kao stvaranje univerzalnog – neetatističkog, nepredstavničkog, neidentitetnog – prostora politike »za sve«
Thinking the Revolution as the Creation of Universal – Non-etatist, Non-representative, Non-identitarian – Political Space ‘for All’

Author(s): Lana Zdravković
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Recent History (1900 till today), Marxism, Politics and Identity
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: revolution; thought-practice; emancipatory politics;

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the possibility of rethinking and practising revolutionary politics in contemporaneity, through a look at the legacy of 20th-century revolutionary thought-practice and revolutionary events in the 21st century, which experiment with the constitution of revolutionary power without seizing the governmental power. Going from the historical situation, that the revolution “eats its children”, I argue that a true revolution does not mean taking power, but on the contrary, abolishing the instance of concentrated power. The revolution must be reconceived and put on the map of history as an emancipatory process of establishing a policy of equality, which is the creation of a universal space of politics for ‘all’ or ‘anyone’ without the Other. This presupposes the conceptualisation and redefinition of the revolutionary subject, the revolutionary method, and the revolutionary organization.

  • Issue Year: 40/2020
  • Issue No: 01/157
  • Page Range: 151-166
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian