Dissident Marxism : past voices for present times /
Renton, Dave,1972-author.
David Renton argues that the roots of today's anti-capitalist movement can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries who shared a commitment to socialism from below: Soviet poet Mayakovsky, Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Georges Henein, and others.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dissident Marxism 1917-1989; Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: questioning the Soviet path; Karl Korsch, Marxism and philosophy; Georges Henein: surrealism and socialism; Dona Torr, E.P -- . Thompson: socialist history; Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and monopoly capital; Walter Rodney, African socialist; Harry Braverman: work and resistance; Samir Amin: theorising underdevelopment; David Widgery: the poetics of propaganda; The dissident tradition; Notes; Further reading; Index;
David Renton argues that the roots of today's anti-capitalist movement can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries who shared a commitment to socialism from below: Soviet poet Mayakovsky, Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Georges Henein, and others.
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