From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing individuals, whose unstoppable energies generated remarkable transformations.
Left Americana considers both the limitations and successes of Christian socialists, Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, and the "New Left" activists of the sixties and seventies in creating profound social and political change.
Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Awardwinning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.
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“Left Americana offers an open-minded overview of select experiences and thinkers in the context of “what is to be done” in America. Le Blanc does not seek or offer a formula; he simply asks that leftists think anew about what kind of revolutionary organization can overcome the global triumph of capitalism. How can an organization be thoroughly democratic yet disciplined enough to be successful without just replicating the authoritarian society it wishes to replace? What specific national factors must American radicals take into account? The only given in Le Blanc’s view is that a viable American left must exemplify the values and governance of the new society it advocates.”
—International Socialist Review
Other books by Paul Le Blanc
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Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
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Revolutionary Collective
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The Living Flame
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US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part I: Emergence
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
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US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer -
The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940
Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc -
C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee -
Revolutionary Studies
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October Song
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Black Liberation and the American Dream
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Trotskyism in the United States
Edited by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
From Marx to Gramsci
Edited by Paul Le Blanc -
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class
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Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
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Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party
by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
Unfinished Leninism