Revolutionaries; contemporary essays
By: [by] E. J. Hobsbawm.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Communism.; Anarchism.; Violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Communists: Problems of communist history. Radicalism and revolution in Britain French communism. Intellectuals and communism. The dark years of Italian communism. Confronting defeat: the German Communist Party.; title: Anarchists: Bolshevism and the anarchists. The Spanish background. Reflections on anarchism.; title: Marxism: Karl Marx and the British Labour Movement. The dialogue on Marxism. Lenin and the "aristocracy of labour." Revisionism. The principle of hope. The structure of capital. Karl Korsch.; title: Soldiers and guerrillas: Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war. Civilians versus military in twentieth-century politics. Coup d'état.; title: Insurrectionaries and revolution: Hannah Arendt on revolution. The rules of violence. Revolution and sex. Cities and insurrections. May 1968. Intellectuals and the class struggle.