We Make Our Own History

Laurence Cox is Associate Professor in Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. A long-time activist, he co-founded the social movement journal Interface and researches popular struggles for a better world. He is co-author of We Make Our Own History: Marxism, Social Movements and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2014) and co-editor of Revolution in the Air?: 1968 in the Global North (Pluto, 2018). With Alf Gunvald Nilsen he edits the Pluto Press series Social Movements / Activist Research.Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at University of Pretoria. He is the author of Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland among other books.

• Preface: About This Book1. ‘The This-Worldliness of Their Thought’: Social Movements and Theory2. ‘History Does Nothing’: The Primacy of Praxis in Movement Theorising3. ‘The Authors and the Actors of Their Own Drama’: A Marxist Theory of Social Movements4. ‘The Bourgeoisie, Historically, Has Played a Most Revolutionary Part’: Social Movements from Above and Below in Historical Capitalism5. ‘The Point Is to Change It’: Movements from Below against NeoliberalismNotesBibliographyIndex

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