You need a gun
Wolfgang Streeck: The A-Word, 14 December 2017
The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 190 pp., £16.99, April 2017,978 1 78663 368 2 Show More
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 190 pp., £16.99, April 2017,
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 179 pp., £14.99, April 2017,978 1 78663 372 9 Show More
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 179 pp., £14.99, April 2017,
“... What is the relationship between coercion and consent? Under what circumstances does power turn into authority, brute force into legitimate leadership? Can coercion work without consent? Can consent be secured without coercion? Does political power depend on voluntary agreement and values shared in common, or does it grow out of the barrel of a gun? When ideas rule, how is that rule maintained? Can associations of equals – built on common interests, ideas and identities – endure, or must they degenerate into empires kept together by force? Such questions go to the foundations of political theory and practice ... ”