The dialectic of position and maneuver : understanding Gramsci's military metaphor

The dialectic of position and maneuver : understanding Gramsci's military metaphor /

"In The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver, Daniel Egan examines the role that the military metaphors of war of position and war of maneuver play in Antonio Gramsci's social theory. The foundation for this analysis is the different ways in which Marxists have understood war and military st...

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Main Author: Egan, Daniel, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2016
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 94
Subjects:
Gramsci, Antonio, > 1891-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Military art and science > Philosophy.
Maneuver warfare.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Communist strategy.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • "Introduction: Marxism and the military metaphor
  • Gramsci's Marxism
  • Working class organization and revolutionary politics
  • Political relations of power
  • War of maneuver and war of position
  • War as metaphor
  • Analysis of the metaphor
  • Marxism and insurrection
  • Engels and insurrection
  • Lenin, Trotsky and insurrection
  • The Communist International and insurrection
  • The 'Gramscian' nature of insurrection
  • Soviet military doctrine
  • Creating the Red Army
  • Soviet military science: tactics, operational art, strategy
  • Deep battle and Gramsci's war of position
  • Marxism and guerrilla warfare
  • People's war
  • The foco
  • The Gramscian character of guerrilla warfare
  • Conclusion: Lessons for socialist political strategy
  • The dialectic of position and maneuver
  • The Gramscian war of position and twenty-first century socialism.

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