The 20th century has gone down in history as the century of revolution, a time in which the policy of emancipation was enmeshed -enmeshed would be a better word- in the old problem of the State. By turning this into the great lever of transformation, revolutionary politics was constituted as a conquest of that fabled place of "concentrated power", to the point of exhaustion. In fact, if today the word revolution has lost all substantive political content, it has been trivialized so much, it is worth asking if this is not due to this close relationship between politics and the State.
This book proposes an inversion of the game. Stop thinking about politics in relation to state power. And begin to think of it as the foundation of a power or powers of its own. Politics thus constituted is confirmed as the self-determination of the social collectivity. From this perspective, the st...read more