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Title: Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change by Cynthia Kaufman ISBN: 0-89608-693-3 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a book!
Comment: What a book! Ideas for Action is probably the best book I've read this decade; it's a precious instrument of serious activists. As an activist, I see myself as a practitioner more than an academian. And usually I find no time, no interest and no pleasure reading theoretical books. I usually find them to be too much at a distance from the real world, from reality. It's the famous between the position on a podium and the people down there in the room to whom one is giving a lecture; this book is not imposing that distance. This book is purposely written in solidarity for a better society. It is the work of an academian who also happens to be a practitioner. Ms. Kaufman released Ideas with the " . . . hopes that you will find some way to use it in your work. I wrote the book to help people new to radical politics to gain some orientations to radical thought and history, and to encourage a deepening to reflection on the part of experienced social justice activists." And let me tell you, her hopes are bearing fruit.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sharp presentation of progressive politics and analysis
Comment: I definitely recommend Cynthia Kaufman's Ideas for Action : Relevant Theory for Radical Change.
I'd particularly recommend it to anyone interested in activism or progressive politics. The book is designed as a way for activists to get a grasp of a broad range of progressive topics quickly and coherently, and it's a clear description of globalization, capitalism, racism, sexism, Gramsci, activism. But in the process, she writing the clearest statement of left activists beliefs I've seen. More experienced activists and intellectuals are likely to get a nice "aha" moment as they recognize ideas they use, but hadn't related to each other, presented concisely and convincingly. She also does a great job of presenting the diversity of progressive positions and beliefs without partisanship that would prevent a reader from taking their own sides. Useful in a bunch of ways.
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Title: War Talk by Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0896087247 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Global Uprising : Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century : Stories from a New Generation of Activists by Neva Welton, Linda Wolf ISBN: 0865714460 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The ABC's of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robin Hahnel ISBN: 0745318576 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 24 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World by Ellis Cose ISBN: 0060928875 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation by Nancy Stohlman, Laurieann Aladin ISBN: 089608695X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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