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SUMMARY:Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflect
 ion on sense and nonsense - Chris Rogers (Warwick University\; author of 
 ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’ (2014))
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:The paper reflects on varying ways in which the dominance of c
 apitalist\nsocial relations has been ‘performed’\, and radical or revo
 lutionary\npolitical strategies stifled as a result. In particular\, it re
 flects on\nthe way in which accusations of co-option by capitalist interes
 ts have\nbeen levelled at radical movements and the way in which autonomou
 s forms\nof social and economic organisation that emerge in the interstice
 s of\ncapitalist social relations are criticised as insignificant or\nunsu
 stainable. I suggest that these critiques are nonsense and perform\ncapita
 list dominance in two ways. First\, they are contingent on\ncontested theo
 retical positions that have directed debate from the\npractical to the aca
 demic. Second\, because mainstream political\ndiscourses that deride alter
 native ‘norm entrepreneurs’ as either\nquacks or hypocrites deny the p
 ossibility of social change and\nerroneously suggest the significance of a
 n individual’s critique is\ncontingent on their social status. The paper
  illustrates the ways in\nwhich nonsense of this kind has affected recent 
 revolutionary political\nmovements\, including Occupy\, and tentatively su
 ggests ways it might be\nescaped\n\n\nALL ARE WELCOME \n\n\nOrganisers: Je
 ff Miley and David Lane\n
LOCATION:Sociology Department Committee Room\, Free School Lane
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