{"product_id":"revolution-in-the-air-max-elbaum-9781786634597","title":"Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. \u003ci\u003eRevolution in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt tells the story of the \"new communist movement\" which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the Republican majorities of Nixon and Ford. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the 1980s these groups had either collapsed or become tiny shards of the dream of a Maoist world revolution. Taking issue with the idea of a division between an early \"good sixties\" and a later \"bad sixties,\" Max Elbaum is particularly concerned to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for today's activists who, like their sixties' predecessors, are coming of age at a time when the Left lacks mass support and is fragmented along racial lines.\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreward by Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Elbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786634597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786634597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Max Elbaum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984316793087,"sku":"9781786634597","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bac1684-4e56-490e-9584-40b2b0795e27.jpg?v=1683271691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolution-in-the-air-max-elbaum-9781786634597","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}