{"product_id":"for-a-libertarian-communism-paperback","title":"For a Libertarian Communism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Guérin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Berry\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Guérin addressed himself to younger people \"alienated from ideologies and 'isms' shorn of any meaning by an earlier generation\" and particularly from \"socialism, which has so often been betrayed by those who claimed to speak in its name, and which now provokes an understandable skepticism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published here for the first time in English, Guérin not only provides a critique of the socialist and communist parties of his day, he analyzes some of the most fundamental and pressing questions with which all radicals must engage. He does this by revisiting and attempting to draw lessons from the history of the revolutionary movement from the French Revolution, through the conflicts between anarchists and Marxists in the International Workingmen's Association and the Russian and Spanish revolutions, to the social revolution of 1968. These are not just abstract theoretical reflections, but are informed by the experiences of a lifetime of revolutionary commitments and by his constant willingness to challenge orthodoxies of all kinds: \"Far from allowing ourselves to sink into doubt, inaction, and despair, the time has come for the left to begin again from zero, to rethink its problems from their very foundations. The failure of both reformism and Stalinism imposes on us the urgent duty to find a way of reconciling (proletarian) democracy with socialism, freedom with Revolution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Guérin\u003c\/b\u003e was a prominent member of the French left for half a century. He published \u003ci\u003eThe Brown Plague\u003c\/i\u003e in 1933 and \u003ci\u003eFascism and Big Business\u003c\/i\u003e in 1936. His controversial, libertarian Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution, \u003ci\u003eClass Struggle in the First Republic, 1793-1797\u003c\/i\u003e was judged by his friend C.L.R. James to be \"one of the great theoretical landmarks of our movement\".\u003cb\u003e Mitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive. His translations include \u003ci\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath to Bourgeois Society\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDavid Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is currently a senior lecturer in politics and history at Loughborough University, UK. His publications include \u003ci\u003eA History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLibertarian Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently preparing a biography of Guérin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770497794336,"sku":"9781629632360","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8c8b3e4590742ba75b45aa0b316d7c06.webp?v=1780372955","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/for-a-libertarian-communism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}