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Revolution in the air:

sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
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Verso, 2002 - Political Science - 370 pages
Revolution In The Air is the first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968. It tells the story of the 'new communist movement' which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the republican majorities of Nixon and Ford.

By the 1980s these groups had either collapsed or become tiny shards of the dream of a Maoist world revolution. Taking issue with the idea of a division between an early 'good sixties' and a later 'bad sixties,' Max Elbaum is particularly concerned to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for today's activists who, like their sixties' predecessors, are coming of age at a time when the Left lacks mass support and is fragmented along racial lines.
  

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Review: Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

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This is a good history of Communist parties in the late 1960s and 1970s and how they related to the activism and/or revolutionary politics of the 1960s. For the most part, it does what it sets out to ... Read full review

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This was a very uninspired read. Not recommended. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

The System Becomes the Target
15
The Appeal of Third World Marxism
41
The Transformation of New Left Radicalism
59
A New Communist Movement Takes Shape
93
Strongest Pole on the Anticapitalist Left
111
Elaborate Doctrine Weak Class Anchor
129
Envisioning the Vanguard
145
The Culture of a Movement
163
Chinas New Policies Split the Movement
207
Rival Trends Try Party Building Round Two
227
Fatal Crises and First Obituaries
253
The Survivors Build the Rainbow
269
The Collapse of Communism
287
Movement Veterans Adjust to Civilian Life
305
Glossary of New Communist Movement
339
Index
363

The Momentum Is Broken
183
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In Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, Max Elbaum presents a valuable but flawed study of a host of Marxist-Leninist ...
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Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. London and New York: Verso, 2006. xiv + 380 pp. Photographs, glossary, bibliography ...
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In Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, Max Elbaum presents a valuable but flawed study of a host of Marxist-Leninist ...
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In Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, Max Elbaum presents a valuable but flawed study of a host of Marxist-Leninist ...
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Revolution in the Air
Despite some serious differences with the analysis found in Max Elbaum's "Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che", ...
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Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air
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Revolution in the Air - Past Events
He is the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (Verso, 2002), termed by Pultizer Prize-winning historian David ...
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Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air | Solidarity
Against the Current. Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. ...
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JSTOR: Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History ...
... as well as of an event that forever altered it. Reference Elbaum, Max. 2002. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso.
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Previous Classes
with Max Elbuam, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che; and Cindy Wiessner, People Organized to Win Employment Rights ...
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About the author (2002)

Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a leader of oneof the main new communist movement organizations. His writings haveappeared in the Nation , the US Guardian, CrossRoads, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left . He lives in Oakland.

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TitleRevolution in the air: sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Haymarket (Hardcover)
The Haymarket series
AuthorMax Elbaum
Editionillustrated
PublisherVerso, 2002
ISBN1859846173, 9781859846179
Length370 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
  
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