[Minorcompositions] New Book: Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse

[Minor Compositions]

New book from Mikkel Bolt on ongoing crises and insurrections…

*Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse*
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

The crisis runs deep. The economies of the US and Europe are in profound 
crisis and the developing economies are also beginning to feel its 
effects. Everywhere it is workers who are paying the price. The crisis 
is being socialized and austerity is the order of the day; the crisis is 
used as a pretext for further savings and cuts. In other words, capital 
has intensified the class war. But the proletariat has started moving. 
The revolts in North Africa and the Middle East have challenged the 
neoliberal world order and its division of the world, and the ‘movement 
of the squares’ in Southern Europe and Occupy in the US have picked up 
the baton and joined the new protest cycle. Even though dictators have 
been toppled in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the protests continue. This is 
also the case in Greece, Spain and Portugal where people reject the 
austerity programs. There are protests in Bulgaria and Bosnia. In Syria 
the civil war is raging. In China the number of strikes continue to 
rise. In Turkey the youth reject Erdogan’s neoliberal ‘success’ and 
urban restructuring and in Brazil ‘the dangerous classes’ have taken to 
the streets. There are a variety of protests going on – the ones in the 
West are defensive, the ones in the rest of the world offensive and 
reformist – but together they are knocking a hole in the neoliberal 
world order. The old mole is back.

Bio: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is Associate Professor at the Department of 
Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.


PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=678

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from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
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