Sanbonmatsu, John, The Postmodern Prince: Critical theory, left strategy and the making of a new political subject; New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004, 272

The Postmodern Prince provides a historically-grounded critique of postmodernism, and a history of how the socialist Left has helped to create its ideas. In the course of this two-sided critique, it develops an account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject-a successor to Machiavelli's Prince and Gramsci's Modern Prince-capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global crisis.
Sanbonmatsu demonstrates the limitations of the work of Michel Foucault, and more recently, Hardt and Negri's much-acclaimed Empire. In the process he validates for Marxism the classical idea of politics as hegemonic in scope, revolutionary in aspiration,and dependent on the capacity of leadership to rise to unforeseen challenges. He draws on an extraordinary range of historical, political and philosophical analyses to set out the preconditions for a renewal of strategic and theoretical vision for the Left. (from IGS, news, n. 14)

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