Binding: Hardcover
Description: From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt - Hendrix and Astra Taylor comes the first in - depth examination of Solidarity not just as a rallying cry but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Solidarity is often invoked but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here two leading activists and thinkers survey the past present and future of the concept across borders of nation identity and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality polarization violence and ecological catastrophe? Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers to twenty - first century social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Hunt - Hendrix and Taylor trace the philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern world. Looking forward they argue that a clear understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained and an awareness of how it has been suppressed is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: right - wing backlash irreversible climate damage widespread alienation loneliness and despair. Hunt - Hendrix and Taylor insist that solidarity is both a principle and a practice one that must be cultivated and institutionalized so that care for the common good becomes the central aim of politics and social life.
Title: Solidarity The Past Present And Future Of A World - Changing Idea
Author(s): Taylor Astra
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593701249
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Category: Politics & Government