Tactics and Emancipation in the Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Nicholas Kiersey is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics, and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. His current project is an investigation into the concept of socialist governmentality and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism.William W. Sokoloff is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. He is the author of Confrontational Citizenship: Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution and Revolt (2017) and Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective (2020). He is working on a third book on overcoming left paralysis and pessimism.

• Introduction: The Question of Tactics in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism 1. Taking a Knee: Neoliberalism, Radical Imaginaries, and the NFL Player Protest 2. You Can’t Handicraft the Apocalypse: The Invidious Consequences of “Opting Out“ 3. Beyond a Spectacular Image of the Working Class 4. Revolutionary Accounting? Methods and Possibilities in Critical Strategy 5. Disentangling Neoliberalism from Leadership Education: Critical Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development in Higher Education 6. The Great American Rights Bake Off: Freedom of Religion v. Freedom from Discrimination 7. Building Long Term Power in Rural America: Identity Construction, Elections, and Movement Work 8. Between Parliamentarism and Armed Insurrection: Marxist Political Theory and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War