Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution

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PM Press
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352
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6.0 X 8.9 X 1.0 inches | 0.88 pounds
Language
English
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Paperback
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9781629634395

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About the Author
A student of Herbert Marcuse, George Katsiaficas is the author of The Subversion of Politics and Asia's Unknown Uprisings. Together with Kathleen Cleaver, he coedited Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver is former communications secretary and first woman on the central committee of the Black Panther Party. A longtime activist for human rights, she is currently a professor of law at Emory University. Carlos Muñoz played a prominent role in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. He is a Vietnam War-era veteran, a member of Veterans for Peace, and an active part of the immigrant rights movement.
Reviews

"A well-informed survey of the global 'New Left' of 1968."
--Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

"George Katsiaficas's work presents an understanding how we of the New Left used our education as a practice of freedoms: confronting the racist, warmongering status quo with the objective of creative participatory democracy. As we continue to work toward cooperational humanism here at home and the world over, this insightful analysis provides a useful backdrop for social activism and the struggle for future democratic human rights."
--Bobby Seale, former chairman and cofounder of the Black Panther Party

"This is the best book on the New Left, the only truly global history that historicizes the social movements of the 1960s. It is both a cautionary tale and a guide for dark times that require imaginative resistance. This new edition could not have come at a better time."
--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975

"By including feminism prominently in the global insurgency of 1968, this book gives us comprehensive understanding of the broad mobilization that was at the heart of the movement. Everywhere in the world, people simultaneously challenged wars, racism, and archaic politics and also patterns of domination in everyday life."
--Mariarosa Dalla Costa, professor emerita, University of Padua, and theorist of Wages for Housework

"Of all the many studies of the wave of radicalism marking the so-called long sixties, The Global Imagination of 1968 ranks among the very best. Nothing else rivals the lucidity and succinctness with which Katsiaficas captures not only the liberatory vision but the sheer vibrancy with which the period's global movement was imbued. The book should be considered essential reading by all who seek transformative change."
--Ward Churchill, author and activist