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Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times

Name: Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times
Author: David Renton
ISBN: 9781842772928

by David Renton, Dave Renton

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Overview

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, including such inspiring figures as the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Communist historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian surrealist Georges Henein, American New Left economists Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, and many others.

Synopsis

For Renton (Sunderland U., UK), the best of the political left have been the dissident Marxists influenced by Trotskyist and New Left criticisms of capitalism and Stalinism. He presents a brief historical behavior of this dissident Marxism from 1917 to 1989 before providing intellectual profiles of significant figures from the tradition. These individuals include philosopher Karl Korsch, historians Dona Torr and E.P. Thompson, underdevelopment theorist Samir Amin, African socialist Walter Rodney, political writer David Widgery, poet Georges Henein, and six others. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR