Abstract
This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and particularly the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism’s outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism. Through interlocutions with Antonio Gramsci on his theorising of state formation and capitalist modernity and the notion of passive revolution, we draw out the internal relationship between the structuring condition of uneven and combined development and the class agency of passive revolution. Interlocuting with passive revolution places Antonio Gramsci firmly within a stream of classic social theory shaping considerations of capitalist modernity. As a result, by building on cognate theorising elsewhere, passive revolution can then be established as a lateral field of causality that necessarily grasps spatio-temporal dynamics linked to both state and subaltern class practices of transformation in social property relations, situated within the structuring conditions of uneven and combined development.
Highlights
This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism’s outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism
The originality of this article is, that it asserts the notion of passive revolution as precisely a lateral field of causality capable of grasping spatio-temporal dynamics linked to state and class practices of transformation in social property relations within the overriding structuring condition of uneven and combined development
When conceptualising the relation between the structuring condition of uneven and combined development and class interventions of passive revolution, we draw on the philosophy of internal relations (Ollman, 1976), allowing us to tease out the internal dynamics of structure and agency in capitalist expansion
Summary
This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism’s outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism. The originality of this article is, that it asserts the notion of passive revolution as precisely a lateral field of causality capable of grasping spatio-temporal dynamics linked to state and class practices of transformation in social property relations within the overriding structuring condition of uneven and combined development.
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