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Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile U. of Minnesota Press, 2009

San Francisco Freedom School

Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer: tremendously influential thinkers all, and all part of a grouping of German scholars called the Frankfurt School. A new book by Thomas Wheatland examines the Frankfurt School's interactions with US intellectuals in New York City. It also contests conventional understandings of the impact of Marcuse's ideas on the New Left.

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David Austin, You Don't Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of CLR James AK Press, 2009

The great Trinidadian intellectual CLR James was an anti-colonial fighter, radical historian, cricket expert, Marxist theoretician, Melville scholar, playwright, and novelist. David Austin talks about James's life, ideas, and wide-ranging influence, from Caribbean and African anti-colonial and post-independence struggles to the Caribbean diasporic New Left in Canada. (Encore presentation.)

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David Austin, You Don't Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of CLR James AK Press, 2009

The great Trinidadian intellectual CLR James was an anti-colonial fighter, radical historian, cricket expert, Marxist theoretician, Melville scholar, playwright, and novelist. David Austin talks about James's life, ideas, and wide-ranging influence, from Caribbean and African anti-colonial and post-independence struggles to the Caribbean diasporic New Left in Canada.

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Richard Lichtman teaches "Defining Political Freedom" at OLLI

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman has fascinated audiences and readers for 60 years. Could this play, about the downward spiral of Willy Loman and his family, illustrate and illuminate politically radical themes and ideas? Richard Lichtman presents his detailed analysis of Salesman, bringing in Marxist and psychoanalytic ideas and concepts.

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The First International was founded in 1864, but a decade later the anarchists, led by Mikhail Bakunin, and the socialists, led by Karl Marx, rancorously parted ways -- and anarchism and socialism have since been uneasy allies and often outright antagonists. Yet at a moment when capitalism is unraveling, as Andrej Grubacic argues, perhaps it's time to see what common ground can be found between the two most potent tendencies within the radical left.

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Michael Newman, Socialism: A Very Short Introduction Oxford U. Press, 2005

Socialism 2009 conference

Did socialism begin with Marx and Engels? Or do we need to go back to certain utopian thinkers of the early nineteenth century? And what did Karl Marx believe about workers, capitalism and revolution, anyway? Michael Newman discusses early developments in socialist theory and practice. Also, Mike Davis comments on California's budget crisis.