Review of 'Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
If you want a more practical, and actually easier to understand, approach to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the war machine, this is the book. Possibly the most important study in the other wise strangely boring field of "social movement theory". Zibechi is not an outsider or overly worried about neutrality. This is about building power to overcome the state. One of the crucial points in the book is that every day life, the neighbourhood, the family, friendship relations, cooperatives, stores and community kitchens can all continue using their power in an insurrectionary moment, that these relations of every day life is actually the very fabric an insurrection is made of.
