The Left At War
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The Left At War
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Author : Michael Bérubé
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-07
The Left At War written by Michael Bérubé and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with History categories.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major intellectual debates and key players of the last two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas. The Left at War brings the history of cultural studies to bear on the present crisis—a history now trivialized to the point at which few left intellectuals have any sense that merely "cultural" studies could have something substantial to offer to the world of international relations, debates over sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, matters of war and peace. The surprising results of Bérubé’s arguments reveal an American left that is overly fond of a form of "countercultural" politics in which popular success is understood as a sign of political failure and political marginality is understood as a sign of moral virtue. The Left at War insists that, in contrast to American countercultural traditions, the geopolitical history of cultural studies has much to teach us about internationalism—for "in order to think globally, we need to think culturally, and in order to understand cultural conflict, we need to think globally." At a time when America finds itself at a critical crossroads, The Left at War is an indispensable guide to the divisions that have created a left at war with itself.
Vietnam The Necessary War
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Author : Michael Lind
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999
Vietnam The Necessary War written by Michael Lind and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with United States categories.
One of America's leading intellectuals presents a startling thesis sure to provoke controversy: that the Vietnam War was the right war at the right time--with the wrong military strategy.
Gay Men And The Left In Post War Britain
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Author : Lucy Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-19
Gay Men And The Left In Post War Britain written by Lucy Robinson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with History categories.
Available in paperback for the first time, his book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexuality. Throughout the post-war years, the new cult of the teenager in the 1950s, CND and the counter-culture of the 1960s, gay liberation, feminism, the Punk movement and the miners' strike of 1984 all helped to build a politics of identity. There is an assumption among many of today's politicians that young people are apathetic and disengaged. This book argues that these politicians are looking in the wrong place. People now feel that they can impact the world through the way in which they live, shop, have sex and organise their private lives. Robinson shows that gay men and their politics have been central to this change in the post-war world.
In God We Trust
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Author : Gerald Rahelich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-15
In God We Trust written by Gerald Rahelich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Most people are familiar with the term "political correctness," but few Americans know that it was originally conceived in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It was here that communists formed The Institute for Social Research. Political correctness, or cultural Marxism, along with a doctrine called Critical Theory were designed to bring about the triumph of socialism on the world stage. When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, the communists of the Frankfurt School fled to the United States, bringing with them their political ideologies. They concluded that in order for socialism to triumph, Western Civilization would have to be destroyed; and destroying Western Civilization would mean destroying its foundation-Christianity and the nuclear family. With the advent of the Vietnam War, these communists saw an opportunity to put their plans into action. Today we are experiencing firsthand how political correctness and the culture war started by the left are destroying our country. Gerald Rahelich's In God We Trust dares to speak the truth about what is happening in our society. The book examines our history and the factors that make America the greatest nation on earth. It also addresses the evils of socialism, the weapons they use, and how the radical left and socialists have infiltrated every facet of American life. This groundbreaking new book concludes with suggestions for combating the leftist assault on America. In God We Trust is not politically correct, nor is it for the faint of heart-but it is a must-read for every patriotic American.
Crusade Of The Left
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Author : Robert Rosenstone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Crusade Of The Left written by Robert Rosenstone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with categories.
Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number were not Communists; their activism was inspired by domestic and international crises of the 1930s, and colored by idealism.The men who went to Spain came out of a radical subculture that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal. Th is radicalism was a native plant, but it was nourished from abroad. In the thirties the menace of fascism seemed to be spreading like cancer across Europe, giving an international aspect to many domestic problems in the United States. To intellectuals, students, unionists, liberals, and leftists, the threat of fascism was so real that many came to believe that if it was not stopped in Spain, eventually they would have to take up arms against fascism at home.To understand the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War it is necessary to bury some of the shibboleths of cold war years. Dissidence in the United States occurs in response to perceptions of reality on this side of the Atlantic, not because of the wishes of men in the Soviet Union. Th e members of the Lincoln Battalion were genuine products of America, and their story is properly a page in American military and political history. From them, one can learn much about the world of the 1930s and perhaps even something about the potential of modern man for thought and action in time of crisis.
The Left Alternative
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Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
The Left Alternative written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Political Science categories.
Confronting the major debates in the world today-about national alternatives and alternative globalizations-Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.
The Left S War Against The Poor
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Author : John Pepple
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-02-09
The Left S War Against The Poor written by John Pepple and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-09 with Political Science categories.
Leftists have been waging a war against the poor since the 1960s. During that decade, the left began turning its attention to other causes and in doing so began a war against the poor. This war is not an intentional war, but it is a war nevertheless. It manifests itself in a number of ways: by environmentalists who never think about the impact that their policies have on the poor; by well-meaning people who destroyed the public schools; and by people who support criminals over their victims, who are almost always poor people. Why did this war happen? It happened because the left, despite its focus on the poor, has almost always been controlled by the rich. When the left adopted new issues several decades ago, these rich people refused to listen to those among the poor who protested. But while the left’s war against the poor goes back only a few decades, the fact that the left has been controlled by the rich ever since the left began means that the left has never really been wholly committed to helping the poor. Instead, the analyses and policies formulated by rich leftists have helped rich leftists (who get to keep their wealth and to control the government) more than the poor. This book argues that a leftism by and for the poor will be strikingly different from leftism as it now exists. While Rich People’s Leftism blames capitalism for exploiting the workers and wants a redistribution of wealth, Poor People’s Lefism wants job creation. The more jobs there are for the poor, the less they are exploited. It is job creation more than anything else that will help the poor escape from poverty.
The Radical Left On The Eve Of War
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Author : James S. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Radical Left On The Eve Of War written by James S. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
The War On Labor And The Left
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Author : Patricia Cayo Sexton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-05
The War On Labor And The Left written by Patricia Cayo Sexton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Social Science categories.
In all countries, labour has war stories" to tell, but none are so violent as those of American labour. Since the 1870s at least 700 workers have been killed and thousands seriously injured in labour disputes. Nowhere but in this country have employers so actively fought back against strikes through the use of scabs," surveillance, and mercenary armies.Although much of the violence occurred decades ago, author Patricia Sexton contends that this rich history sheds light on questions that still plague observers of the American political system: Why has the United States been more conservative in its domestic policies than other Western democracies? Why is it almost alone among them in lacking a mass labour or democratic socialist party,or the kind of social policies favoured by such parties? And why has American labour unionism been in serious decline in recent decades?The most familiar answers to these questions involve consensus explanations of what has come to be known as American exceptionalism. America is conservative, observers say, because its citizens have loved" capitalism and supported its political policies wholeheartedly or because the nation's open frontier and early voting rights reduced dissent and class consciousness. Other explanations focus on various internal constraints said to be unique to the American working class or its organizations, such as conflict among diverse immigrants, the sectarianism and blunders of leftist groups, and the conservatism or incompetence of labour union leadership. All of these are said to have prevented labour from carrying out successful conflicts with employers and economic leaders.According to Sexton, these arguments ignore the remarkable record in American history of labour-left struggles: the violent suppression of industrial unionism prior to the 1930s, legal and forceful repression of trade unionism, and destruction by various means of left-leaning unions and political organizations. Her book explores instead a neglected explanation of American conservatism,that of a literal war on labour, waged by unusually powerful economic entities using repressive strategies, often backed by police and sometimes by federal forces.The details of this violent history, familiar to labour historians, are recounted here in a new perspective emphasizing the impact on workers of conflict sustained over many years. But the book is much more than a reinterpretation of this history. Patricia Sexton shows how the use of power and repression has played out as well in our institutions of law and government, in economic policies, and in the media. Making these links and showing how America's conservatism is unique among other Western democracies is the contribution of this ambitious book. For only by coming to terms with this history of repression and its legacy can we fully understand America's conservatism today.
The Left Side Of History
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Author : Kristen Ghodsee
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-26
The Left Side Of History written by Kristen Ghodsee and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-26 with History categories.
In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight and sometimes die for a cause they believed to be right. Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today in democratic Eastern Europe there is ever-increasing despair, disenchantment with the post-communist present, and growing nostalgia for the communist past. These phenomena are difficult to understand in the West, where “communism” is a dirty word that is quickly equated with Stalin and Soviet labor camps. By starting with the stories of people like Thompson and Lagadinova, Ghodsee provides a more nuanced understanding of how communist ideals could inspire ordinary people to make extraordinary sacrifices.