Murdered by capitalism
Subtitle: a memoir of 150 years of life and death on the American left
By: John Ross.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Description: "Two old men, one long dead, the other teetering on the lip of the grave, boozily reminisce about their own histories of struggle in a picturesque northern California boneyard. The payoff is an epic tale of the hallucinatory, carnal, ornery, and ultimately tragic-comedic history of the American Left." "E. B. Schnaubelt, the brother of the infamous Rudolph "Haymarket" Schnaubelt, navigates us through the seemingly boundless revolutionary battleground of his life, uttering cries of subversive defiance from beyond the grave that are duly recorded by the FBI snoop. Schnaubelt's co-stars in this extravangza are such long-dead radical luminaries as Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill, Big Bill Haywood, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Haymarket martyrs."

"John Ross's own deviant story - West Village red diaper baby, beat poet, Bay Area revolutionary, globe-trotting troublemaker, hobo journalist, jazz loving junkie, jailbird, "the Willie Loman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation"--Plays contemporary counterpoint to Schnaubelt's old-time tall stories as he meanders through the past six decades of American resistance."--Jacket.