Marx Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience

Marx Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience offers a fresh look at Communism both the bad and good and also touches on anarchism Christian theory conservatism liberalism Marxism and more to argue for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin as democratic revolutionaries. It examines the Red Decade of the 1930s and the civil rights movement and the New Left of the 1960s in the United States as well. Studying the past to grapple with issues of war and terrorism exploitation hunger ecological crisis and trends toward deadening de-spiritualization the book shows how the revolutionaries of the past are still relevant to today's struggles. It offers a clearly written and carefully reasoned thematic discussion of globalization Marxism Christianity (and religion in general) Communism the history of the USSR and US radical and social movements. . Language: English