Postwar America - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Howard Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years in American history. By critically examining U.S. militarism abroad and racism at home, he raises challenging questions about this often romanticized era.

Rednecks for Black Lives - Beth Howard - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

A story of struggle and perseverance from an Eastern Kentucky woman who answered Florence Reese''s timeless question, "Which side are you on?" with love and solidarity. Activist and organizer Beth Howard invites readers to join her journey from the hardships of life in Appalachia to the street protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and the resistance to Donald Trump and MAGA racists. Howard reminds us of the rich traditions of working-class organization and resistance in Appalachia, like the 10,000 interracial miners of the so-called Red Neck Army (known by the red bandanas worn around their necks), which in 1921 refused to be segregated and waged the largest working-class insurrection since the Civil War. Beth''s story is particular, but not unique. Too many of us face the same struggle for the basic necessities of life: somewhere decent to live, good food to eat, health care that doesn''t break the bank, jobs that don''t kill us. As she reminds us, we haven’t got a chance—unless we organize. In the best of storytelling traditions, her prose is at once heart-breaking and inspiring, always insightful and provocative, and filled to the brim with courageous humanity.

Like Our Lives Depend on It - Beth Howard - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

A story of struggle and perseverance from an Eastern Kentucky woman who answered Florence Reese''s timeless question, "Which side are you on?" with love and solidarity. Activist and organizer Beth Howard invites readers to join her journey from the hardships of life in Appalachia to the street protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and the resistance to Donald Trump and MAGA racists. Howard reminds us of the rich traditions of working-class organization and resistance in Appalachia, like the 10,000 interracial miners of the so-called Red Neck Army (known by the red bandanas worn around their necks), which in 1921 refused to be segregated and waged the largest working-class insurrection since the Civil War. Beth''s story is particular, but not unique. Too many of us face the same struggle for the basic necessities of life: somewhere decent to live, good food to eat, health care that doesn''t break the bank, jobs that don''t kill us. As she reminds us, we haven’t got a chance—unless we organize. In the best of storytelling traditions, her prose is at once heart-breaking and inspiring, always insightful and provocative, and filled to the brim with courageous humanity.

Soldiers In Revolt - David Cortright - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

The definitive account of GI resistance to the Vietnam War. New introduction by Howard Zinn.

Max Weber: Modernisation As Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis - Jan Rehmann - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

With Gramsci’s theory of hegemony as his starting point, this volume provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber’s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Rehmann lucidly and witheringly argues that, even though Weber presents his science as’value-free,’ the forefather of sociology’s system is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie advocating for a new model of capitalist hegemony.

Max Weber's Theory Of Personality: Individuation, Politics And Orientalism In The Sociology Of Religion - Sara R. Farris - Bog - Haymarket Books -

Max Weber''s writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences. They are key texts for understanding Weber’s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern civilizations,'' and, according to this book rely on a deeply flawed and essentially orientalist concept of personality.

The Marxist Conception of the State - Max Adler - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

This translation of Max Adler ''s Die Staatsauffassung des Marxismus introduces English readers to an important and distinctive perspective on Marx ''s theory of the state, formed through Adler ''s experience of the tumultuous interwar period. Adler ''s central target of critique is the notion of the law as the neutral arbiter of democratic society -- a notion which, Adler contends, collapses in the face of an adequate understanding of the ruling class in capitalist society. Beyond providing an important historical survey of arguments over the nature of law and democracy that were conducted between the two World Wars, The Marxist Conception of the State offers contemporary readers a primer for comprehending any truly democratic future state might entail.

For Nonconformism: Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock - Nicola Emery - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Subject of numerous interpretations and studies, the vicissitudes of the famous Frankfurt Institute for Social Research nevertheless still contain some little-known sagas. One of these less discussed stories is the human and scientific relationship that bound philosopher Max Horkheimer and economist Friedrich Pollock for over fifty years. Based on texts and letters translated here into English for the first time, as well as some previously unpublished documents, For Nonconformism reconstructs the crucial moments in the friendship between the two scholars with an engaging narrative style and unwavering philological accuracy. Nicola Emery accompanies readers through a tour of the two friends and intellectuals'' ''nonconformism'' and their search for an alternative life-form that led to the birth of Frankfurt critical theory.

Howard Zinn Speaks - - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Vietnam - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Sncc - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of the organization, of the 1960s, and of the process of social change. Includes a new introduction by the author.

Persistent Inequalities - Howard Botwinick - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Economists generally assume that wage differentials among similar workers will only endure when competition in the capital and/or labor market is restricted. However, using a classical Marxist anaysis of real capitalist competition, Botwinick shows that substantial patterns of wage disparity can persist despite high levels of competition. Indeed, the author provocatively argues that competition and technical change often militate against wage equalization. In addition to providing the basis for a more unified analysis of race and gender inequality within labor markets, Botwinick’s work has important implications for contemporary union strategies. Going against mainstream proponents of labor-management cooperation, the author calls for militant union organization that can once again take wages and working conditions out of capitalist competition. This revised edition was originally published under the same title in 1993 by Princeton University Press.

The Southern Mystique - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

The South has long been surrounded in mystique. In this powerful volume, drawing on Zinn’s own experiences teaching in the South and working within the Southern civil rights movement, Zinn challenges the stereotypes surrounding the South, race relations, and how change happens in history. With a new introduction from the author.

Marx In Soho - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

The premise of this witty and insightful "play on history" is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error, though, Marx is sent to Soho in New York, rather than his old stomping ground in London, to make his case.

Failure To Quit - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

In this lively collection of essays, Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in U.S. history to the nature of higher education today.

Disobedience And Democracy - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. Zinn explores the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience, and strikes, and draws lessons for today.

Justice In Everyday Life - Howard Zinn - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

The book explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the police, the courts, prisons, housing, work, health, schools, and popular struggle, Justice in Everyday Life features classic essays by a diverse group of authors, including Jonathan Kozol.

Doing History From The Bottom Up - Staughton Lynd - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

In the 1960s historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of history "from below." In this collection, Staughton Lynd, himself one of the pioneers of this approach, laments the passing of fellow luminaries David Montgomery, E.P. Thompson, Alfred Young, and Howard Zinn, and makes the case that contemporary academics and activists alike should take more seriously the stories and perspectives of Native Americans, slaves, rank-and-file workers, and other still-too-frequently marginalized voices. Staughton Lynd is an American conscientious objector, Quaker, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, professor, author, and lawyer.

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation - Tom Brass - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations that see unfree labor as incompatible with capitalism. Conventional wisdom holds that regarding the opposition between capitalism and unfreedom an unbroken continuity links Marxism to Adam Smith, Malthus, Mill, and Max Weber. Challenging this, Brass argues that Marx accepted that, where class struggle is global, capitalist producers employ workers who are unfree.

American Anarchism - Steve J. Shone - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone is a work of political theory and history that focuses on nineteenth century American Anarchism, together with two European anarchists who influenced some of the Americans. The nine thinkers discussed are Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Fielden, Luigi Galleani, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Max Stirner, William Graham Sumner, and Benjamin Tucker. What emerges from this engagement is a lucid, compelling, and well grounded argument that ideas drawn from nineteenth century American Anarchism have enduring relevance for those seeking to solve contemporary political problems.

The Bewitched World of Capital - Giacomo Marramao - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Capital is a chameleon that assumes different guises while maintaining the same logic, exploiting crisis as an opportunity for regeneration. Yet each transformation opens a passage for radical conflict and new revolutionary theories and subjects. This is particularly true of the critical passage from the 1920s to the 1930s, which Giacomo Marramao presents as an incandescent laboratory of theoretical and practical transformations and fierce confrontations. Moving from Austro-Marxism to Frankfurt School Critical Theory, from Hilferding to Grossmann, and Max Weber to Carl Schmitt, The Bewitched World of Capital shows how ''the Political'' was remade in the passage from free-market capitalism to mass society, throwing new light on forms of domination and conflict that also traverse our present.

Austro-marxism: The Idealogy Of Unity Volume Ii - - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers—chief among them Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler—emerged from and helped transform Austrian Social Democracy into one of Europe’s best organized and most effective political and social movements. Through its expertly selected and introduced original documents this wide-ranging volume offers English readers the most thorough effort to date to provide a representative sampling of the Austro-Marxists’ key theoretical ideas. From their controversial thinking on the National Question, to their reflections on the Bolshevik revolution, through their attempts to understand the collapse of their gains under fascist pressure, this volume illustrates the conceptual richness of the entire school of thought.

The Old Man - Truman Nelson - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

“Truman Nelson’s biography of John Brown is a refreshing and eloquent corrective to the common misconceptions about the character and actions of this extraordinary American hero.”—Howard Zinn On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a historic attack on the Harper’s Ferry Armory. Nelson narrates the incredible events that unfolded that day and explodes the conventional dismissal of John Brown as a fanatic, presenting him as a revolutionary who, at the cost of his own life, helped bring an end to slavery. After Brown’s execution, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass said of him, “If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery. . . . Until this blow was struck, the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy and uncertain. The irrepressible conflict was one of words, votes and compromises. When John Brown stretched forth his arm, the sky was cleared. The time for compromises was gone—the armed hosts of freedom stood face to face over the chasm of a broken Union—and the clash of arms was at hand. The South staked all upon getting possession of the Federal Government, and failing to do that, drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own, and not Brown’s, the lost cause of the century.” Truman Nelson (1911–1987) wrote many books, including The Surveyor and The Right of Revolution .

Winter Soldiers - Richard Stacewicz - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

“ Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made, through the crucible of combat, from warrior to protester.”—Howard Zinn “Stacewicz has captured the simple, rough-hewn elegance of the voices of Vietnam veterans. As in other wars, the ordinary soldier always has the most extraordinary words for history.”—Stanley Kutler, editor of The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War “By turns irreverent and painfully sincere, Winter Soldiers will transform stereotyped views of both veterans and the antiwar movement.”—Marilyn Young The Vietnam War left an indelible mark on those who took part in it and spawned an antiwar movement more popular than any other in US history. In all that has been written about the war, rarely do the worlds of the Vietnam veteran and the antiwar demonstrator come together. Yet in a small but articulate organization known as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the two made common cause. Winter Soldiers recovers this moving chapter in the history of the Vietnam War era. Bringing together the voices of more than thirty former and current members of the VVAW, oral historian Richard Stacewicz offers an eloquent account of the impact of the war on the lives of individuals and the nation. Richard Stacewicz teaches history at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton And Beyond: Contested Perspectives - John E. O'brien - Bog - Haymarket Books - Plusbog.dk

Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O’Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski and Teresa Ebert, O’Brien''s investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention. John E. O''Brien, Ph.D. (1971), University of Wisconsin, formerly Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Portland State University, Oregon, now independent researcher in Paris, with projects on the European Community and India, where he lectures on Systems Management in a Global Political Economy.