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Overview""May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil."" So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st. It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole-a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green-out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies-are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, Jos Mart, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter LinebaughPublisher: PM Press Imprint: PM Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.168kg ISBN: 9781629631073ISBN 10: 1629631078 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 April 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsWritten to mark May Day, the international workers holiday, Linebaugh s 11 playful and elegiac treatises motivate, enrage, and inform. Publishers Weekly Ideas can be beautiful too, and the ideas Peter Linebaugh provokes and maps in this history of liberty are dazzling reminders of what we have been and who we could be. Rebecca Solnit, author, Storming the Gates of Paradise Linebaugh goes a long way towards encouraging and fanning radical socialist dreaming and scheming in the present, dreaming not as escape but as opening a door to possibilities, and creating a light on the hill for the future. Rowan Cahill, Labour History Melbourne Author InformationPeter Linebaugh is a historian and a professor at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The London Hanged, The Magna Carta Manifesto, and Stop, Thief!, and the coauthor of Albion's Fatal Tree and The Many Headed Hydra. His articles have appeared in publications that include CounterPunch, the New Left Review, New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History. He lives in Toledo, Ohio. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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