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Dissident Marxism - Past Voices for Present Times (Paperback)
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We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist,
libertarian and anti-war. But where do today's dissidents come
from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the
life and work of an earlier generation of socialist
revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures as the Soviet
poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Communist
historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian surrealist
Georges Henein, American New Left economists Paul Baran and Paul
Sweezy, advocates of Third World liberation including Walter Rodney
and Samir Amin, Harry Braverman, the author of Labor and Monopoly
Capital, and David Widgery, the journalist of the May '68 revolts.
What these writers shared was a commitment to the values of
socialism-from-below, the idea that change must be driven by the
mass movements of the oppressed. In a world dominated by slump,
fascism and war, they retained a commitment to total democracy.
Dissident Marxism describes the left in history. Some readers will
enjoy it as a history of revolutionary socialism in the years
between Stalin's rise and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Others will
find here a challenging thesis -- that the most enduring of
left-wing traditions, and highly relevant to the times we live in
today, were located in a space between the New Left and Trotskyism.
Dissident Marxism explores the lives and thinking of some of the
most creative and striking members of the twentieth century left,
and asks if the new anti-capitalist movement might provide an
opportunity for just such another left-wing generation to emerge?
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