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Beating Time in the Slow Movements: Bensaïd’s Revolutionary Rhythms

In: Historical Materialism
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Xavier Lafrance Département de Science Politique, Université du Québec à Montréal lafrance.xavier@uqam.ca

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Alan Sears Department of Sociology, Ryerson University asears@ryerson.ca

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Daniel Bensaïd was prominent among the revolutionary thinkers and activists who emerged from the mass insurgency of the 1960s, a period in which anti-capitalist organisers had genuine social weight grounded in connections to broad layers of the working class and radical movements. As the neoliberal offensive developed, working-class and allied movements experienced crucial defeats that marginalised anti-capitalist theory and practice. Bensaïd developed a unique theoretical analysis of radical mobilising during the neoliberal period, at once grounded in the history of revolutionary organising and audaciously open-ended in assessing the impact of capitalist restructuring and the employers’ offensive. The basis of his theoretical renewal lay in a new approach to understanding temporality that undercut any sense of socialist inevitability, and a commitment to revolutionary pluralism that was crucially located in the political sphere.

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