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C/P/502. Is direct action a legitimate form of political engagement?

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2012
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The paper addresses the issue of direct political action as a form of legitimate political engagement examining the views of Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx on direct action, reviewing its evolution in the historical context, and discussing the impacts of globalisation on the changing parameters of direct action. Direct actions undertaken by environmental groups in the 1980s-1990s are considered.

 

KEYWORDS: direct action, political engagement, globalisation, environmental groups, Hobbes, Marx,

 
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