Studies in Critical Social Sciences The Provisional Power

Karl Marx was a radical critic of power. This book reconstructs the complex paths through which he, against the background of the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation and relations of exploitation, confronts the history and topicality of social and political forms of domination, with the end in view of overcoming them. In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a journalist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers’ power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.