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Libertarian Socialism
Libertarian Socialism

Libertarian Socialism

Politics in Black and Red

Edited by Alex Prichard, Edited by Ruth Kinna, Edited by Saku Pinta, Edited by David Berry

POLITICAL SCIENCE

368 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $26.95 (US $26.95) (CA $35.95)

Publication Date: August 2017

ISBN 9781629633909

Rights: WOR X UK & EUR

PM Press (Aug 2017)

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Overview

The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. This collection of essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveals some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. Contributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian Høgsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Benoît Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates.

Reviews

"Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Red and Black is an invaluable contribution to historical scholarship and libertarian politics. The collection of essays contained in the book has the great virtue of offering both analytical perspectives on ideas, and historical perspectives on movements. The contributions examine classical themes in anarchist politics such as individual liberty, whilst also exploring more neglected thinkers and themes from a libertarian standpoint, such as C.L.R. James and race. There can be little doubt that the volume will be of major interest to historians, theorists, students and activists." —Darrow Schecter, reader in Italian, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex

"Just what we need as we move into a new phase of revolt against the obscenity of capitalism: a recovery of the richness of our different traditions of struggle, with their weavings and bumpings. Time to move on, time to redeem the struggles of the past. A valuable and welcome collection." —John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power and professor of sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla

"This is a welcome and essential collection that is sure to spark debates and support ongoing efforts to build a liberatory movement in which Marxists and anarchists can find common ground and practice mutual respect and humility. In this period of late-capitalism, survival itself is at stake. Theory and practice, whether Marxism or Anarchism in their many manifestations, lead to dead ends without careful assessment of the world as it is now." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

"An important, redemptive collection of essays that questions narratives of sectarian difference without resorting to easy answers. In exploring the productive frictions, convergences, agonisms and affinities that have created and re-created the 'black and red,' the contributors recover the neglected histories of a capacious Left, one that repudiated ideological rigidity and sterile orthodoxies without abandoning its socialist commons. Itself a model of such capaciousness, this is a stimulating and necessary work." —Raymond B. Craib, associate professor, Department of History, Cornell University

Author Biography

Dave Berry is the author of A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945. Ruth Kinna is the author of Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition. Saku Pinta is the writer and coproducer of To My Son in Spain, a documentary. Alex Prichard is coeditor of the Contemporary Anarchist Studies monograph series.