Comrade and Lover

Comrade and Lover
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0262050218
ISBN-13 : 9780262050210
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrade and Lover by : Rosa Luxemburg

The evolution of the famed socialist, Rosa Luxemberg's political thought and her struggle to reconcile her political career with her domestic desires can be traced in this volume of letters written to her political partner and lover, Leo Jogiches.

Comrade Sister

Comrade Sister
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780813944272
ISBN-13 : 0813944279
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrade Sister by : Laurie R. Lambert

In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People’s Revolutionary Government. The United States under President Reagan infamously invaded Grenada in 1983, staying until the New National Party won election, effectively dealing a death blow to socialism in Grenada. With Comrade Sister, Laurie Lambert offers the first comprehensive study of how gender and sexuality produced different narratives of the Grenada Revolution. Reimagining this period with women at its center, Laurie Lambert shows how the revolution must be recognized for its both productive and corrosive tendencies. Lambert argues that the literature of the Grenada Revolution exposes how the more harmful aspects of revolution are visited on, and are therefore more apparent to, women. Calling attention to the mark of black feminism on the literary output of Caribbean writers of this period, Lambert addresses the gap between women’s active participation in Caribbean revolution versus the lack of recognition they continue to receive.

Comrade

Comrade
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781788735049
ISBN-13 : 1788735048
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrade by : Jodi Dean

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade.” Now, among the left, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies.” In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relationship of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended. Dean offers a theory of the comrade. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relationship is characterized by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, C.L.R. James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a left at all, we have to be comrades.

Comrade and Lover

Comrade and Lover
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Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages : 206
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0262620375
ISBN-13 : 9780262620376
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrade and Lover by : Rosa Luxemburg

The evolution of the famed socialist, Rosa Luxemberg's political thought and her struggle to reconcile her political career with her domestic desires can be traced in this volume of letters written to her political partner and lover, Leo Jogiches

Comrade Loves of the Samurai

Comrade Loves of the Samurai
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106001623278
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrade Loves of the Samurai by : 井原西鶴

Beijing Comrades

Beijing Comrades
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1558619070
ISBN-13 : 9781558619074
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Beijing Comrades by : Beitong

Beijing Comrades is the story of a torrid love affair set against the socio-political unrest of late-eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. This riveting and heart-breaking novel, circulated throughout China in 1998, quickly developed a cult following and remains a central work of queer literature from the People's Republic. This is the first English-language translation.

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9781935408437
ISBN-13 : 1935408437
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón by : Claudio Lomnitz-Adler

A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution. In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico and the United States, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Flores Magón and his comrades devoted to the “Mexican Cause.” This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience of dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: La revolución es la revolución—“The Revolution is the Revolution.” For Lomnitz, the experiences of Flores Magón and his comrades reveal the meaning of this phrase. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magón, Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, and others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. It is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the U.S.-Mexican border. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón will change not only how we think about the Mexican Revolution but also how we understand revolutionary action and passion.

The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg

The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 703
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ISBN-10 : 9781781682333
ISBN-13 : 178168233X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg by : Rosa Luxemburg

The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Much of this correspondence appears for the first time in English translation; all of it helps to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

The Case of Comrade Tulayev
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781590174265
ISBN-13 : 1590174267
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Case of Comrade Tulayev by : Victor Serge

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and André Malraux's Man's Fate.

The Structure is Rotten, Comrade

The Structure is Rotten, Comrade
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781683962151
ISBN-13 : 168396215X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Structure is Rotten, Comrade by : Viken Berberian

More in love with the alluring properties of cement than he is with his girlfriend, Frunz’s overriding ambition is to become the next legendary architect. If only life was that simple. His father, known as Mr. Cement, is a builder in bed with the autocrats who run Yerevan, the capital of post-Soviet Armenia. As father and son team up to transform the city into a post-modern mecca of Trumpian high-rises, outraged citizens rise up in Revolution against them and Yerevan’s corrupt regime. Will Frunz and his father realize their architectural dreams or come crashing down to Earth in the chaos of the Revolution? Written by Viken Berberian with his signature originality and verve and drawn with audacious compositions, delirious colors, and a kinetic expressionistic technique by the acclaimed painter and illustrator Yann Kebbi, The Structure is Rotten, Comrade is a formally innovative and politically resonant work, by turns prescient, punchy, cautionary, and fearless.