Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times - Hardcover

David Renton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842772929 ISBN 13: 9781842772928

Publisher: Zed Books, 2004

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'A salutory antidote to oversimple ideas of an homogenous left. David Renton's round-up of rebels and resisters gives voice to suppressed traditions of left dissent which are of great relevance in our times.' Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester 'A readable and interesting account of somewhat less-known strands of Marxism - strands that might rescue its libertarian image and potential from the tarnish of Stalinism and kindred authoritarian left projects...Broaches ideas that are important and offers an alternative perspective on Marxism to the stagnant and inaccurate image that has dominated both much activism and much scholarship in recent years.' Progress in Human Geography

Synopsis:

The past years have witnessed the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. Its advocates reject the single-issue politics of the 1980s and 1990s, preferring to see the system as a totality, a world ripe for revolutionary change. But where do today's dissidents come from? 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: the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, Georges Henein, Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Walter Rodney, Samir Amin and others. He explores their lives and thinking, and asks if the new anti-capitalist movement may give birth to another such left-wing generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842772929
• ISBN 13: 9781842772928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288