Dissident Marxism
Past voices for present times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23515871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Renton |
| Year | 2004 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dissident Marxism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Zed Books Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350219724 |
| OpenAlex | W4240819384 |
| ISBN | 9781350219724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today’s dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots 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, advocates of Third World liberation including Walter Rodney and Samir Amin, Harry Braverman, the author of Labor and Monopoly Capital, and David Widgery, the journalist of the May ‘68 revolts. What these writers shared was a commitment to the values of socialism-from-below, the idea that change must be driven by the mass movements of the oppressed. In a world dominated by slump, fascism and war, they retained a commitment to total democracy. Dissident
Ancient history · Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Left-wing politics · Marxist philosophy · New Left · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Trotskyism · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.55 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |