Crowds and Party

Taine, Hyppolite 117
Tarde, Gabriel 93, 95, 177, 178
technocratic expertise, culture of40
technology, pathological 57–9
temporal acceleration 56
tethered selves 59
Thatcherism 51, 52, 222
Thatcher, Margaret 67
therapeutic sensibility 36–7, 44
Thomas, Peter D. 165
touching, fear of64, 65
trade unions 174
transference 165, 183–90, 200, 216, 217, 243
transformative dimension, crowds 104–5
Trotsky, Leon 134
Trotter, Wilfred 108
Tunisia 123
Turkey, Gezi park protesters 18
Turkle, Sherry 57–9, 60–2, 63–4, 64
Twitter Revolution, the 15–16
Ukraine 123
unconscious, the 92–100, 102, 104, 113, 214, 216
United States ofAmerica Black Friday shoppers 117–18
Communist Party 165, 190–5, 210–13, 219, 221–2, 227–33, 235–8, 241–2, 242–8
and the Paris Commune 131–2
political crowds 123–4
the South 228–33
strikes 19
unity-in-difference 53
vanguard parties 5, 71, 135, 148, 157, 198, 217, 259
violence, power as 50
violent crowds 118–20
virtual crowds 65–6
visibility 22
Wahrman, Dror 84n
Walker, Gavin 217
welfare capitalism 40
welfare liberalism 37
welfare state 52, 54
Welge, Jobst 80n
Wikipedia 13
Wingrove, Elizabeth 77
wisdom, ofcrowds 12, 13–14
women 85, 108
Wood, Ellen Meiksins 54

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workers, isolation 70
working class collectivism 222–3 identity 254, 255–6 movement 257–8 promise ofpower 22–3
Wright, Richard 243–8

Žižek, Slavoj 21, 78–9, 87, 90–1, 150, 164, 185, 187–8, 195, 199, 199–200, 260

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Halftitle Page 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Dedication 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 8

1. Nothing Personal 25
2. Enclosing the Subject 50
3. The People as Subject: Between Crowd and Party 75
4. More Than Many 102
5. The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party 131

Conclusion 156
Index 165

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