Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer--literary critic, mystical philosopher, and left-wing activists--was Germany's major anarchist thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. In this full-scale intellectual biography, Lunn depicts the evolution of Landauer's social thought, a rich terrain within which to examine afresh some intellectual crosscurrents of the Wilhelmian era. Landauer's work in the various circles and movements of his social milieu after 1900, including anarchist, youth movement, expressionist, and Zionist groups, reveal a convergence of volkisch and communitarian ideas with libertarian forms of socialist democracy. The study of this kind of "romantic socialism," in revolt against both industrial modernity and authoritarian government, highlights the inadequacy of viewing volkisch themes exclusively in terms of Nazi "roots." What emerges from this study is the appeal of antiauthoritarian and communitarian ideas for middle-class Left intellectuals dissatisfied with the official Social Democratic Party. In the light of the tragic failures of democratic and socialist forces to gain middle-class support during the Weimar Republic, and of the Nazis' antidemocratic uses of Gemeinschaft, this earlier search for a communitarian democracy gains in importance. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

LUNN, EUGENE

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 The classic biography covering all of Debs public career of 52 years - as City Clerk and State Representative, American Railway Union organizer, and his conversion to socialism, five campaigns for the presidency and his leadership of anti-war dissenters and other causes. Based on research in family papers, this is still the finest sympathetic story of "the nation's foremost radical hero, the most popular leader of a Marxist movement..." 

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A facsimile reprint of the edition published by Benjamin Tucker in 1896, complete with his preface, together with a new introduction by Paul Avrich. In the words of the author "The daily journals of Paris and London, with few exceptions...affirm that Proudhon is an atheist and a madman, a Communist burning to plunder the wealthy, the living incarnation of immorality, disorder and folly...We propose...to explain the leading points of his philosophical and economical system."

Proudhon and His Bank of the People

Politics & Social Sciences

Dana, Charles A.

Politics & Government

A facsimile reprint of the edition published by Benjamin Tucker in 1896, complete with his preface, together with a new introduction by Paul Avrich. In the words of the author "The daily journals of Paris and London, with few exceptions...affirm that Proudhon is an atheist and a madman, a Communist burning to plunder the wealthy, the living incarnation of immorality, disorder and folly...We propose...to explain the leading points of his philosophical and economical system."

Proudhon and His Bank of the People (Young American, No 2)

Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya &amp; Grace Lee, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar and activist. This edition includes the original introduction from Martin Glaberman, a new introduction from Paul Buhle, and one from the author himself. "Two generations ago, CLR James and a small circle of collaborators set forth a revolutionary critique of industrial civilization. Their vision possessed a striking originality. So insular was the political context of their theoretical breakthroughs, however, and so thoroughly did their optimistic expectations for working class activity defy trends away from class and social issues to the so-called 'End Of Ideology', that the documents of the signal effort never reached public view. Happily, times have changed. Readers have discovered much, even after all these years, to challenge Marxist (or any other) orthodoxy. They will never find a more succinct version of James' general conclusions that State Capitalism and World Revolution. In this slim volume, James and his comrades successfully predict the future course of Marxism." [Paul Buhle, from his Introduction] "When one looks back over the last 20 years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of." [E P Thompson]

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