Radicals and Reactionaries
Author | : Abraham J. Peck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abraham J. Peck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Youssef Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1994-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226112721 |
Latin American democracies of the sixties and seventies, most theories hold, collapsed because they had become incompatible with the structural requirements of capitalist development. In this groundbreaking application of game theory to political phenomena, Youssef Cohen argues that structural conditions in Latin American countries did not necessarily preclude the implementation of social and economic reforms within a democratic framework. Focusing on the experiences of Chile and Brazil, Cohen argues that what thwarted democratic reforms in Latin America was a classic case of prisoner's dilemma. Moderates on the left and the right knew the benefits of coming to a mutual agreement on socio-economic reforms. Yet each feared that, if it cooperated, the other side could gain by colluding with the radicals. Unwilling to take this risk, moderate groups in both countries splintered and joined the extremists. The resulting disorder opened the way for military control. Cohen further argues that, in general, structural explanations of political phenomena are inherently flawed; they incorrectly assume that beliefs, preferences, and actions are caused by social, political, and economic structures. One cannot explain political outcomes, Cohen argues, without treating beliefs and preferences as partly independent from structures, and as having a causal force in their own right.
Author | : I. Hall |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137520620 |
The history of international thought is a flourishing field, but it has tended to focus on Anglo-American realist and liberal thinkers. This book moves beyond the Anglosphere and beyond realism and liberalism. It analyses the work of thinkers from continental Europe and Asia with radical and reactionary agendas quite different from the mainstream.
Author | : Douglas M. Weeks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan McGregor |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807176516 |
Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of theologically conservative writers who embraced political radicalism, as their reverence for tradition impelled them to work for social justice. Challenging recent accounts that examine twentieth-century American literature against the backdrop of the rising Religious Right, Communion of Radicals uncovers a different literary lineage in which allegiance to religious tradition fostered dedication to a more just future. From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, traditional faith empowered the rebellious writing of socialists, anarchists, and Catholic personalists such as Vida Scudder, Dorothy Day, Claude McKay, F. O. Matthiessen, and W. H. Auden. By recovering their strain of traditioned radicalism, McGregor shows how strong faith in the past can fuel the struggle for an equitable future. As Christian socialists, Scudder and Ralph Adams Cram envisioned their movement for beloved community as a modern version of medieval monasticism. Day and the Catholic Workers followed the fourteenth-century example of St. Francis when they lived and wrote among the disaffected souls on the Bowery during the Great Depression. Tennessee’s Fellowship of Southern Churchmen argued for a socialist and antiracist understanding of the notion of “the South and the Agrarian tradition” popularized by James McBride Dabbs, Walker Percy, and Wendell Berry. Agrarian roots flowered into creative expressions encompassing the queer and Black medievalist poetry of Auden and McKay, respectively; Matthiessen’s Catholic socialist interpretation of the American Renaissance; and the genteel anarchism of Percy’s southern comic novels. Imaginative writing enabled these Christian leftists to commune with the past and with each other, driving their radical efforts in the present. Communion of Radicals chronicles a literary Christian left that unites deeply traditional faith with radicalism, and offers a usable past that disrupts perceived alignments of religion and politics.
Author | : Virginia Zerilli Ehrlich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kurt Weyland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108483550 |
Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.
Author | : Saul Alinsky |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307756882 |
Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active democratic citizenship. First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and afterword, this classic volume is a bold call to action that still resonates today.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Industrial relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abraham Joseph Peck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Conservatism |
ISBN | : |