radical happiness moments of collective joy

The paper concludes that while useful in explaining the individual employees’ libidinal investment in and subjective experience of his or her resistance, the decaf-perspective also implies a rigid dichotomy between ‘real’ and ‘decaf’ resistance, which is rather unhelpful for distinguishing between different types of resistance. The explanatory force of this theoretical perspective is examined through the use of the online chat forum, where baristas at Starbucks, amongst other topics, describe how they as a form of resistance serve decaf coffee to customers who have ordered regular coffee. Theoretically, the article is based on Alessia Contu’s previous outline of the term and Slavoj Žižek’s theory of ideology. 'Superbly timely.This paper investigates the term decaf resistance, which signifies a resistance, which, although experienced as risky, is harmless in reality, because it – like decaf coffee – is stripped of its potentially dangerous main ingredient. Keir Milburn, author of 'Generation Left' (Wiley, 2019) The interview with ex-Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and a new, contextualising introduction reveals a decades spanning red thread which will prove vital for the left's continued renewal' 'This new edition of a seminal 1980 text is a revelation. Lynne Segal, author of 'Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy' (Verso, 2018) Essential reading for everyone eager for change in these dangerous times' 'How can we fight both inside and outside the state for the socialist futures we so urgently need? There never was a better time to revisit the 'in and against the state' formulations of the radical left. Paolo Gerbaudo, Reader in Digital Politics, King's College London and author of 'The Digital Party' (Pluto, 2018) Only by struggling against the state's reproduction of inequality and struggling for a democratisation of its functions we can start imagining a just and sustainable alternative'

'The questions discussed in this gem of workers' inquiry and activist reflection are as relevant in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, when massive stimulus packages signal a departure from monetarism, as they were in 1979, when Thatcher's public spending cuts started to ravage an already problematic welfare state.

Radical happiness moments of collective joy