Description
Product ID: | 9781786634597 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Revolution in the Air |
Subtitle: | Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che |
Authors: | Author: Max Elbaum |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Demonstrations & protest movements, USA, 20th century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che. It tells the story of the “new communist movement” which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the Republican majorities of Nixon and Ford. With a new foreward by Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-04-10 |