Interlocutions with passive revolution

Bieler, Andreas; Morton, Adam David

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2018. This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and particularly the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism’s outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism. Through interlocutions with Antonio Gramsci on his theorising of state formation and capitalist modernity and the notion of passive revolution, we draw out the internal relationship between the structuring condition of uneven and combined development and the class agency of passive revolution. Interlocuting with passive revolution places Antonio Gramsci firmly within a stream of classic social theory shaping considerations of capitalist modernity. As a result, by building on cognate theorising elsewhere, passive revolution can then be established as a lateral field of causality that necessarily grasps spatio-temporal dynamics linked to both state and subaltern class practices of transformation in social property relations, situated within the structuring conditions of uneven and combined development.

Citation

Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2018). Interlocutions with passive revolution. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513618787659

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 19, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 21, 2018
• Journal: Thesis Eleven
• Print ISSN: 0725-5136
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-7455
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 147
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-28
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513618787659
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1098669
• Publisher URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0725513618787659