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

Biographies & Memoirs

Charles H Kerr Pub Co

The Autobiography of Mother Jones

MARY JONES

Community & Culture

Review\n"A unique and invaluable chronicle of the Wuhan outbreak, richly documented with interviews and personal accounts, Social Contagion debunks the Western stereotype of an atomized population dominated by an omnipotent Big Brother state, emphasizing instead the impressive capacity of popular action to respond to governmental failure and the defaults of a weak social safety net."\n-- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Planet of Slums and The Monster Enters: COVID 19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism\n"This book is about China, the COVID-19 pandemic, and global crisis. At its most expansive, it draws historical lines of analysis between capitalism as a socio-economic way of governance and the biological as a zoonotic way of life; at its more molecular, it reports on situated people living in specific political, social, and physical distress and resistance."\n-- Rebecca Karl, author of China's Revolutions in the Modern World\n"Chuang has unfailingly produced the most penetrating analysis on China for the international left. Their latest work on the pandemic and the social crisis it engendered clears up much of our confusion and illusion, and offers surprising insights into the nature of the state and working class responses. It is a much-needed intervention and reassessment of our present moment."\n-- Kevin Lin, China labor researcher, Made in China Journal\n"Chuang has consistently been the single best English-language source for radical analysis of China, and this volume does not disappoint. The combination of razor-sharp critique paired with in-depth empirical accounts of daily life and social mobilization under the pandemic presents an urgently needed reassessment of the politics of China's capitalist transformation."\n-- Eli Friedman, author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China\nSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught between a lethal virus and a repressive state. They argue that China's rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports, and analysis, Social Contagion gives us a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. Chuang concludes that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counterinsurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft.

Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China

History

Chuang

Asia

Roads They Made: Women in Illinois

Wheeler, Adade Mitchell

World

 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..." 

Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism

Brommel, Bernard J.

Historical

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Literature & Fiction

Wilde, Óscar

British & Irish

A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Skidmore (Young America Series No. 2)

Gilbert, Amos A.

Mr. Block: Twenty-Four Iww Cartoons

Comics & Graphic Novels

Riebe, Ernest

How To Create Comics & Manga

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)

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