AGAINST CAPITAL: EXPERIENCES OF CLASS STRUGGLE AND RETHINKING REVOLUTIONARY AGENCY

Book ID/图书代码： 07069516B92584

English Summary/英文概要： ‘The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it’. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter’s latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros’s analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic, ‘structural crisis’ that has taken capital into its stage of ‘destructive self-reproduction’, Against Capital focuses on the crucial question of agency. Today, when there are fundamental disjunctures between the globalised economy, the means of social control and political and state structures, what are we to make of Marx’s conclusion that the working class - capital’s only structural antagonist - is ‘the gravedigger’ of capitalism? And what are the implications for this of the information revolution, the changing composition of the working class, and the emergence of new forms of oppositional organisation, with young people to the fore? Slaughter assembles contributions by participants in recent movements in South Africa, Britain, Spain, Mexico, countries in the former Soviet zone and - in a major contribution from Yassamine Mather - the Middle East. He offers an extended critique of ‘vanguardist’ conceptions such as Trotsky’s ‘the crisis of humanity is reduced to the crisis of working-class revolutionary leadership’ and Kautsky’s and the early Lenin’s formulation that socialist consciousness must be brought to the working class ‘from the outside’. Finally, Against Capital examines the necessary theoretical foundations of a rebuilt working-class movement, with special attention to the concepts of class-consciousness and the relation between theory and practice. This book is a compelling and distinctive contribution to recent debates encompassing works such as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism (2015).

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “问题不是如何管理资本制度，而是如何摆脱它”。以及谁来做这项工作？在克里夫•斯劳特最新书籍的开始部分就摆出了这些问题。认识到伊斯特凡•美莎露斯的分析的重要性——《超越资本》1995）等其他历史性书籍，“结构危机”将资本带入“毁灭性的自我复制”阶段，《反对资本》重点关注了机构的关键问题。如今，当经济全球化，社会控制和政治的手段，以及国家结构之间有着根本的裂痕，是什么让我们得出工人阶级-资本结构的反抗者是“资本主义的掘墓人”这一马克思的结论？对于这个信息革命的含义是什么，工人阶级的成分变化，对立组织的新形式的出现，还是年轻人脱颖而出？斯劳特收集了在南非，英国，西班牙，墨西哥，前苏联地区国家的近期运动中的参与者做出的贡献——以及来自中东国家Yassamine Mather的重大贡献。他提供了对“先锋”概念的一个延伸批判，如托洛茨基的“人性的危机即为工人阶级革命领导的危机”，以及考茨基和列宁早期的社会主义意识必须从外面带到工人阶级的想法。最后，《反对资本》考察了重建工人阶级运动的必要理论基础，特别注意阶级意识的概念以及理论与实践之间的关系。这本书是最近辩论类作品中引人注目和独特的书籍，如托马斯•皮克迪的《二十一世纪的资本》（2014）和保罗•马森的《后资本主义》（2015）。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“一本优秀和及时的新分析。它的国际视野和对反思基本原则的勇敢尝试，将重振我们未来的政治战斗。”——托尼•加尼特，电视和电影导演和制片人

“A fine and timely new analysis. Its international perspective and brave attempt to rethink basic principles will re-energise our politics for the fight ahead.” ~ Tony Garnett, TV and film director and producer

About the Author/作者介绍： “一本优秀和及时的新分析。它的国际视野和对反思基本原则的勇敢尝试，将重振我们未来的政治战斗。”——托尼•加尼特，电视和电影导演和制片人

Cliff Slaughter, brought up in a Communist Party family in Yorkshire, worked as a coalminer as an alternative to military National Service, before graduating from Cambridge University. He co-authored the classic Coal is Our Life with Norman Dennis and Fernando Henriques, since when has written a number of books on the working-class movement, socialism and Marxist theory. Now retired, he for many years taught social anthropology and sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford. Leeds United Kingdom

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