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The Origins of Modern Leftism - Richard Gombin

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Text on the origins of the contemporary political left wing.

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Richard Gombin
Submitted by libcom on July 30, 2005

This book was first published as Les Origines du gauchisme (Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1971). This translation by Michael K. Perl was published by Penguin (London, 1975). Gombin wrote a number of other books including The Radical Tradition.

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.The vital question: The rĂ©gime of the USSR and the phenomenon of bureaucracy
  • 2. Philosophical Revisionism
  • 3. A Critique of Everyday Life
  • 4a. The theory of council communism: The Heritage
  • 4b. The theory of council communism: The Inheritors
  • 5. Leftism and Active Dissent
  • Epilogue

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