Ep 392 My Back Pages: What Is To Be Undone

About this episode

Episode 392 explores the relevance of revolutionary ideas through a retrospective on the host's early work.

Episode 392 of RevolutionZ uncovers and visits a half-century-old file on my computer to address a surprisingly urgent question: are we building new revolutionary ideas, or just renting space in inherited ones. I recently rediscovered the text of my 1974 book What Is To Be Undone? written when the arguments between Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, anarchism, and other currents were not academic history but living fuel for organizing. Reading my own early investigations as the Sixties slipped i...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Albert

Topics covered

• revolutionary ideas
• Marxism-Leninism
• Maoism
• anarchism
• political organizing

Keywords

• revolutionary ideas
• Marxism
• Maoism
• anarchism
• political organizing
• 1974
• What Is To Be Undone

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Books & works: What Is To Be Undone?

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