Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 40 No. 1, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi40109
Thinking the Revolution as the Creation of Universal – Non-etatist, Non-representative, Non-identitarian – Political Space "for All"
Lana Zdravković
orcid.org/0000-0002-3320-7089
; Mirovni inštitut, Metelkova 6, SI–1000 Ljubljana
Abstract
The paper considers the possibility of rethinking and practising revolutionary politics in contemporaneity, through a look at the legacy of 20th-century revolutionary thought-practice and revolutionary events in the 21st century, which experiment with the constitution of revolutionary power without seizing the governmental power. Going from the historical situation, that the revolution “eats its children”, I argue that a true revolution does not mean taking power, but on the contrary, abolishing the instance of concentrated power. The revolution must be reconceived and put on the map of history as an emancipatory process of establishing a policy of equality, which is the creation of a universal space of politics for ‘all’ or ‘anyone’ without the Other. This presupposes the conceptualisation and redefinition of the revolutionary subject, the revolutionary method, and the revolutionary organization.
Keywords
revolution; thought-practice; emancipatory politics
Hrčak ID:
242181
URI
Publication date:
4.5.2020.
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