{"title":"Books by Gabriel Rockhill","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780822369769","title":"Counter-History of the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCounter-History of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack economic security, digital access, and real political power, Rockhill interrogates the ways in which this grand narrative has emerged in the same historical, economic, and cultural context as the fervid expansion of neoliberalism. He also critiques the concurrent valorization of democracy, which is often used to justify U.S. military interventions on the behalf of capital. Developing an alternative account of the current conjuncture that acknowledges the plurality of lived experiences around the globe and in different social strata, he shifts the foundations upon which debates about the contemporary world can be staged. Rockhill's counter-history thereby offers a new grammar for historical narratives, creating space for the articulation of futures no longer engulfed in the perpetuation of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295111819637,"sku":"9780822369769","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822369769_068cfad0-0adf-47e9-8230-dc7eadf1816b.jpg?v=1786015860"},{"product_id":"9781685901356","title":"Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?","description":"\u003ci\u003eWho Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?\u003c\/i\u003e offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then engages in a meticulous counter-history of the Frankfurt School-which made a foundational contribution to Western Marxism-by situating it within the global relations of class struggle and the imperialist war on actually existing socialism. With the explicit and direct backing of powerful elements in the capitalist ruling class and the world's leading imperialist state, the Frankfurt School developed a widely promoted form of compatible critical theory as an ersatz for dialectical and historical materialism. The volume concludes by bringing to the fore the positive project that serves as the guiding methodological framework for the work as a whole: a thoroughly anticolonial and anti-imperialist Marxism dedicated to building socialism in the real world. Drawing on extensive archival research to pull back the curtain on ruling class machinations, Rockhill's book elucidates how the intellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to shore up and promote a \"compatible left\" intelligentsia while misrepresenting, maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57697060749685,"sku":"9781685901349","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56369126179189,"sku":"9781685901356","price":71.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781685901349.jpg?v=1793083649"},{"product_id":"requiem-for-french-theory","title":"Requiem for French Theory","description":"French Theory is due for an insider critique, and in Requiem for French Theory, Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill do just that. Drawing upon decades of studying French philosophy in Paris, they build upon the best Marxist criticisms of postmodernism, while further developing them by situating postmodern theory within the global political economy of knowledge and U.S. driven intellectual imperialism. The result is a broad dialogue on topics ranging from international class struggle and the dissemination of ideology, to fascism, identity politics, dialectics, actually existing socialism, and more.   Requiem for French Theory soundly criticizes this tradition’s chameleonic ideological permutations under new names, such as postcolonial thought, decolonial theory, new materialism, and other trendsetting discourses. But it also reveals how these theoretical developments are all part of a broader anticommunist cultural front. Most importantly, Monville and Rockhill develop the positive project of anti-imperialist Marxism as the ultimate antidote to French theoretical sophistry. Far from indulging in the political defeatism characteristic of the Western Marxist critiques of postmodernism, this intellectual exchange issues a clarion call for revitalizing revolutionary theory and putting it into practice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685712699765,"sku":"9781685901509","price":89.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781685901493_b4291afb-eb21-4a48-81c4-1ecdd4db6156.jpg?v=1792598872"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-gabriel-rockhill.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}