{"product_id":"imaginary-power-real-horizons-the-practicality-of-utopianism-9781849355551","title":"Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA defense of the radical imagination from a scholar of social movements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical theorist and philosopher Richard Gilman-Opalsky's \u003ci\u003eImaginary Power, Real Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to the imagination and to its necessity for liberatory struggle. \"'Impractical' is the name given to anyone who imagines something radically other than what exists,\" he writes. However, many things--such as the abolition of slavery--were dismissed as impractical before they came to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a warm, plainspoken manner, these essays chart the affects of creativity and utopianism through topics as varied as the cyclical nature of popular movements; the international history of May Day; the experience of teaching political theory and Marxism in contemporary China; and the revolutionary aspirations of Free Jazz. The human imagination is a real, world-creating power, and those who would declare otherwise have a poor understanding of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Power, Real Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action for those who would dare to dream of a society organized by a different logic than capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849355551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264","brand":"Richard Gilman-Opalsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145783898293,"sku":"9781849355551","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_04e613d0-4846-4fdc-a3db-4d739a477768.jpg?v=1715697741","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/imaginary-power-real-horizons-the-practicality-of-utopianism-9781849355551","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}