We talked with Katsiaficas about his most recent essay collection, Eros and Revolution, released by Montreal’s Black Rose Books, about the passionate movement to confront power and construct a world beyond the borders and boundaries of the old.
As we are seeing the latest mass insurgency happening across the U.S., the most recent in what has been a rapidly accelerating two decades of increased mass uprisings, the energy found in the streets begs to be understood in its historical context. For the past forty years, scholar and revolutionary George Katsiaficas has attempted to hone in on the loving passion that drives resistance movements and to discuss what universal values and human connection these build on. By bringing his experience with social movements to bear, and particularly lessons from the Black Panthers to the April 19 revolution in Korea, Katsiaficas is driving at something shared by the insurrectionary mass subject that is responding not just to accelerating conditions of crisis, but the accumulated belief that something better is possible.
We talked with Katsiaficas about his most recent essay collection, Eros and Revolution, released by Montreal’s Black Rose Books, about the passionate movement to confront power and construct a world beyond the borders and boundaries of the old.
