Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done?

Competing ideologies. Political factions. Activist ideologues. In previous chapters we have explored the creative work of these subjects in devising a huge suite of revolutionary practices, tracing out these practices’ transformative spatial force in a variety of urban arenas. In this chapter, we attend more closely to their interrelationships, which revolved around two inseparable concerns: in order to make a revolution, what is our situation, and how is this to be done? In the social sciences, ideologies, theoretical traditions, and philosophical paradigms that purport to explain the world do not easily run out of explanatory steam. Their perdurance—while the