Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of Institutional Hope in Greece, What?

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The anarchist or autonomist movement in Greece has been one of the strongest in the world yet it has failed to have a significant impact. Is there nothing beyond the world of capitalist destruction or can we still see some possibility for radical hope? The essays in this collection reflect on the experience of the crisis in Greece and its political

John Holloway is a professor of sociology whose book, Change the World without Taking Power, has been translated into 11 languages. Katerina Nasioka is the coauthor of the book Gender and Journalism in Greece and author of the book Ciudades en Insurreccion. Panagiotis Doulos is a Phd candidate of Sociology based in Mexico.

"Beyond Crisis does not look on the bright side. It looks straight into the eye of the storm and unfolds the hopelessness of conventional left politics in Greece and how it became part of the unfolding cycle of state violence and austerity. And it unfolds the community of hope, its courage of resistance and negativity, that has come to fore in Greece, and elsewhere too, as the direct democracy of a society of the free and equal." --Werner Bonefeld, professor of politics, University of York, England "With Jeremy Corbyn calling for a 'new way of doing politics' and offering hope to millions, the publication of this book about Greece's erstwhile 'Government of Hope' is timely. The questions it asks are essential. How does rage, hope and optimism turn into to despair and depression? Why can't the institutional Left break through the 'Wall of Reality'? And, if not Syriza, Podemos or Corbyn's Labour, then what?" --David Harvie, The Free Association "Beyond Crisis is a beautiful and unusually rewarding book. This extraordinary collection of essays combines theory with passion and impresses with its sweep and scope. Bursting with ideas and observations, with an ear for lyrical phrases, this highly original account of social struggles in Greece offers a fresh perspective on capitalism, resistance, and dignified life beyond crisis." --Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History "This book shows that the Greek crisis is testament of the impossibility of capital as a form of human society. Radical hope exists not in the abstract utopia of the party, but in the concrete utopias at the grassroots." --Ana Dinerstein, author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope "This is not just one more book on the past, present and/or future dark aspects of economic crisis in Greece. It is not an analysis of 'impossibility, ' but rather a courageous and challenging voice talking about something which is rarely mentioned in the political, economic, sociological, and anthropological discourses about crisis: hope!" --Diana Riboli, professor of sociology, Panteion University, Athens