Generations of social movements : remembering the left in the US and France / edited by Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry and Ambre Ivol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Le Dantec-Lowry, Hélène, editor.

Ivol, Ambre, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--United States--History.

Social movements.

Social movements--France--History.

Right and left (Political science)--United States--History.

Right and left (Political science).

Right and left (Political science)--France--History.

History.

France.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder ; London : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

French political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the United States, where modes of creative activism recurrently demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. Using a transatlantic perspective, this volume identifies activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations, and it examines various narrative modes used by militants to write their own history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The End of History? From the Fall of Communism to the Resurgence of Militancy

Chapter 1 Thinking about the Left with Stanley Atonowitz: Theoretical Blind Spots of the American Left from the 1960s to the Present An Interview / James Cohen Cohen, James 19

Chapter 2 Memory and Amnesia in the Occupy Wall Street Movement / Jean-Baptiste Velut Velut, Jean-Baptiste 37

Chapter 3 The Decline of the Communist Idea in a French Union (the CGT): A Sociological Case Study, 1945-2000 / Guy Groux Groux, Guy 51

Part II Reassessing Generations: Designated and Forgotten Heirs in Black and White

Chapter 4 Black Radical Thought over Time: From Marxist Traditions to the Hip-Hop Generation Manning Marable (1950-2011) 69

Chapter 5 Intellectual Origins of the New Left: The Legacy of the "Lyrical Left" / Anne Ollivier-Mellios Ollivier-Mellios, Anne 87

Chapter 6 Radical Voices in the "Silent 1950s": Rediscovering Militant Networks with I. F. Stone's Weekly / Soraya Guénifi Guénifi, Soraya 101

Chapter 7 Rebel Apart: Saul Alinsky and the Troubled Memory of the New Left / Andrew J. Diamond Diamond, Andrew J. 117

Part III Militant Narrative Modes: The Radical Edge of Leftist Memoirs

Chapter 8 Remembrances of Political Things Past: Memoirs of Gay Militancy as Militant Memoirs / Guillaume Marche Marche, Guillaume 127

Chapter 9 The 1960s Revisited: Tom Hayden's Retrospective Eye / Hélène Christol Christol, Hélène 147

Chapter 10 From North to South in the 1960s: A Black Activist's Recollections / John Brown Childs Childs, John Brown 157

Chapter 11 Activist Writings: Public Memory and Militant History in Alternative libertaire, a French Anarchist Organization / Irène Pereira Pereira, Irène 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612057293

1612057292

OCLC:

903631178