Revolutionary Studies explores the relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through a critical examination of core concepts and movements. The first part of Revolutionary Studies explores definitions of the working class, social identities, democracy, capitalism, and socialism. The second applies these understandings to the Russian, Chinese, Nicaraguan, and South African revolutionary and post-revolutionary experiences. Revolutionary Studies is rigorously and clearly written for anyone wanting to understand the interrelationship between revolutionary theory and revolutionary practice.
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"Paul Le Blanc is a true organic intellectual, risen from the working class to become a prolific writer, steadfast activist, and exceptional teacher. His lifelong commitment to the struggle for a democratic, socialist revolution. In this wonderful set of essays, he lays out, in accessible and passionate prose, his penetrating analysis of both revolutionary theory and practice. The theory pieces are must reading; they give readers, whether they are new to the material or seasoned hands, the essence of Marxism, class, identity, working class culture, and the politics of revolution. The practice chapters probe revolutionary efforts around the world, from Russia and Cuba to Nicaragua and South Africa. These will be especially useful to teachers. We are in a time of renewed interest in socialism, and there could be no better book than this one to help us grasp the immanent need for it and how we might get from this dying society to one that offers us not just greater happiness but our only chance for long-term survival."
-Michael D. Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review and Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press, author of The Great Inequality and Why Unions Matter
"In this outstanding collection of essays, Paul Le Blanc deals, with powerful insight, key isssues of revolutionary theory and practice, from Marx and Trotsky to the Sandinista insurrection. Uneven and combined development, labor radicalism and socialist democracy are discussed with great acumen. This is 'plain' - i.e. dialectical - revolutionary Marxism at it's best, refusing to give up the struggle for a new world, a society of liberty and justice for all."
-Michael Löwy, Emeritus research director, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
Other books by Paul Le Blanc
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Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
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Revolutionary Collective
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The Living Flame
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US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part I: Emergence
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
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US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer -
The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940
Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc -
C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee -
October Song
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Black Liberation and the American Dream
Edited by Paul Le Blanc
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Left Americana
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Trotskyism in the United States
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From Marx to Gramsci
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class
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Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
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Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party
by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
Unfinished Leninism