The End of Sovereignty is the second volume in a new trilogy by Marxist theorist Antonio Negri. In this book, Negri develops and defends his view of the modern state as a despotic and oppressive power. Abolishing the state in Negri's view is the utopian core of a radical politics of liberation. We pick up where the last episode left off in the wake of the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Muhammad Mosadeg.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah's repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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