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Dissident Marxism : past voices for present times

Title: Dissident Marxism : past voices for present times / David Renton.
Author: Renton, Dave, 1972-
Publication: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2004.

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viii, 277 pages; 22 cm

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index.

Contents

1. Dissident Marxism 1917-1939 -- 2. Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharksy, Serge : questioning the Soviet path -- 3. Karl Korsch, Marxism and philosophy -- 4. Georges Henein : surrealism and socialism -- 5. Dona Torr, E.P. Thompson : socialist history -- 6. Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and monopoly capital -- 7. Walter Rodney, African socialist -- 8. Harry Braverman : work and resistance -- 9. Samir Amin : theorising underdevelopment -- 10. David Widgery : the poetics of propaganda -- 11. The dissident tradition.

ISBN

1842772929
9781842772928
1842772937
9781842772935

LCCN

2004303293
99808549404

OCLC

ocm52565479
52565479
SCSB-14698977

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library