Dissident Marxism : past voices for present times / David Renton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renton, Dave, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--History--20th century.

Communism.

Socialism--History--20th century.

Socialism.

Communists.

Socialists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786611258948

9781350219724

135021972X

9781848136502

1848136501

9781842772935

1842772937

9781281258946

1281258946

9781848130920

1848130929

OCLC:

476155927