| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Communism -- History -- 20th century
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Socialism -- History -- 20th century
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Communists.
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Socialists.
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socialists (people)
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History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Communism
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Communists
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Socialism
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Socialists
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Marxismus
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Dissident
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781848130920 |
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1848130929 |
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9781848136502 |
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1848136501 |
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1281258946 |
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9781281258946 |
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9786611258948 |
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6611258949 |
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