Dissident Marxism Past Voices for Present Times

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 fro. . . Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Dissident Marxism 1917-1989
3. Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: Questioning the Soviet Path
4. Karl Korsch: Marxism and Philosophy
5. Georges Henein: Surrealism and Socialism
6. Dona Torr, E. P. Thompson: Socialist History
7. Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Monopoly Capital
8. Walter Rodney, African Socialist
9. Harry Braverman: Work and Resistance
10. Samir Amin: Theorising Underdevelopment
11. David Widgery: The Poetics of Propaganda
12. The Dissident Tradition

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