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The American revolution : pages from a Negro worker's notebook.
- Title
- The American revolution : pages from a Negro worker's notebook.
- Author
- Boggs, James
- Publication
- New York : [Monthly Review Press, 1968, c1963]
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- Description
- 93 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1963, drawing on his own experience as a factory worker and radical militant, James Boggs wrote this pamphlet. It addresses (among many things) the failures of the CIO, increasing automation, rising unemployment and the emergence of new social actors ('the outsiders') that he saw as a threat to capitalism. Boggs offers both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle. He sees the growing trend toward automation, the decline of organized labor, the expansion of imperialism, and the deepening of racial strife as fundamentally rooted in the contradictions of U.S. capitalism. And he concludes that the only way forward is a new American revolution—one that, from his perspective writing in the 1960s, appeared to have already begun"--LibCom.org website, viewed July 11, 2022.
- Series Statement
- Modern reader paperbacks, MR-13
- Alternative Title
- Pages from a Negro worker's notebook
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The rise and fall of the union -- The challenge of automation -- The classless society -- The outsiders -- Peace and war -- The decline of the United States empire -- Rebels with a cause -- The American revolution.
- ISBN
- 0853450153
- OCLC
- 12730242
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library