Dissident Marxism

Past Voices for Present Times

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David Renton

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The years towards the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century 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 contemporary dissidents come from? Here, David Renton argues that the roots of the modern 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.

Author Biography:

David Renton is a senior research fellow at Sunderland University. He was previously an education officer for the Trades Union Congress in London, and has lectured at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Rhodes University in South Africa and Nottingham Trent University. His other books include Fascism: Theory and Practice (Pluto Press, 1999), Marx on Globalisation (Lawrence and Wishart, 2001) amd Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the 1940s (Macmillan Press, 2000).

Release date Australia

April 8th, 2004

Author

David Renton

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

288

Dimensions

135x215x21

ISBN-13

9781842772935

Product ID

2106000

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