Praktyka teoretyczna 1(27)/2018 Cooperation as the Institution of the Common (original) (raw)

For a historian of socialist and communist ideas, the left’s identity is of key importance to understanding the diverse political and economic strategies used by theoreticians and activists belonging to emancipatory movements. Moreover, the contemporary transformation of global, cognitive, extractive and financialised capitalism, together with the development of new forms labour and accumulation, make it imperative to redefine the inherited categories of class struggle and to define the subject of emancipatory politics and the very stakes of social conflicts today. This is also tied indirectly to the crisis of the left as such and the negation of communism, as an idea discredited by its implementations to date in the countries of the Soviet bloc or the South American social experiments, a problem that has affected both the traditional parliamentary social democracy of the ―old Europe as well as the latest anticapitalist collectives of the likes of Occupy Wall Street. These problems apply to questions of key importance to all modern mass political movements: what is the multitude as the subject of politics, what is its relation to existing social groups and how does the practice of the multitude, its constituent and transformational power, make itself apparent in the social field?

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