Revolution in the air
Subtitle: sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che
By: Max Elbaum ; foreword by Alicia Garza
Contributors: Garza, Alicia, 1981- writer of introduction
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781786634597
Subjects: Politics and government; Communism; History
Description: Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.
Notes: With a new forward by Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; Part I: A New Generation of Revolutionaries: 1968-1973; 1. "The System" Becomes The Target; 2. The Appeal of Third World Marxism; 3. The Transformation of New Left Radicalism; Part II: Gotta Get Down to It: 1968-1973; 4. A New Communist Movement Takes Shape; 5. Strongest Pole on the Anticapitalist Left; 6. Elaborate Doctrine, Weak Class Anchor; 7. Envisioning the Vanguard; 8. Bodies on the Line: The Culture of a Movement; title: Part III: Battered by Recession, Restructuring and Reaction: 1974-19819. The Momentum Is Broken; 10. China's New Policies Split the Movement; 11. Rival Trends Try Party Building, Round Two; 12. Fatal Crises and First Obituaries; Part IV: Walking on Broken Glass: 1982-1992; 13. The Survivors Build the Rainbow; 14. The Collapse of Communism; Part V: End of a Long March; 15. Movement Veterans Adjust to Civilian Life; 16. Lessons from the New Communist Movement; Appendix: Glossary of New Communist Movement Organizations; Bibliography; Notes; Index