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This award-winning work makes the case for all organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarność revolution of 1980–81.
Michał Siermiński debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers “from the outside.” Siermiński traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organization developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The book convincingly demonstrates that Solidarność was driven by the working class’s own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct – often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.
Nadir Lahiji is the author of Kōjin Karatani’s Philosophy of Architecture (Routledge, 2024). His previous books include Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou (Routledge, 2022); Architecture, Philosophy and Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou (Routledge, 2021); Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique After Marx (Routledge, 2021); An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019), and Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2018 [2016]). He is the co-author of The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City (Routledge, 2016). His edited books include Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project: Dialogues on Architecture and the Left (Zero Books, 2016), The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2015 [2014]), Architecture Against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project (Routledge, 2014), The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson’s Narrative (Ashgate, 2012 [2011]).
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Communism and the Return of the Repressed
1 Karatani and the Liberated Marx
2 Marx and the Unconscious
3 The Science of Spirit
4 Kant, Marx, and Transcendental Critique
5 The Gift and Modes of Exchange
6 Theory of the State
7 Socialism and Associationism
8 Kant’s Perpetual Peace
9 Metaphors in Marx
10 Nation and Transcritique on Kant and Freud
11 Isonomia and Socrates
Epilogue: Marx and the Unconscious Spirit
Bibliography
Index