Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che is a 2002 history book on the subject New Communist Movement within the United States.
| Author | Max Elbaum |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | History of the New Communist Movement |
| Genre | Non-fiction, History |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
Synopsis
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Reception
editRevolution in the Air was well received within socialist and Marxist circles, with Jacobin writer Ethan Young writing in 2018, praising the work as essential reading for understanding the New Communist movement.[1] In contrast, Lorner Goldner of the anarcho-communist news website Libcom was far more critical, writing, "without exactly setting out to do so, Max Elbaum in his book Revolution In The Air, has managed to demonstrate the existence of progress in human history, namely in the decline and disappearance of the grotesque Stalinist- Maoist- 'Third World Marxist' and Marxist-Leninist groups and ideologies he presents, under the rubric New Communist Movement, as the creations of pretty much the 'best and the brightest' coming out of the American 1960's."[2] NCM veteran and former Theoretical Review contributor Paul Saba, gave the book a mixed review in Viewpoint Magazine.[3]
References
edit- ^ Young, Ethan (20 May 2018). "Everything You Wanted to Ask About Sects … But Were Afraid to Know". Jacobin. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ Goldner, Loren (September 19, 2017). "Review: 'Revolution in the Air' by Max Elbaum". libcom.org. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Saba, Paul (2018-07-19). "Lessons from One Left to the Next: Revolution in the Air Reissued". Viewpoint Magazine. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
Further reading
edit- Elbaum, Max. "Learning from the New Communist Movement". Jacobin (Interview). Interviewed by Uetricht, Micah. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- M. Quinn, Patrick (November–December 2002). "Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air". Against the Current. 101. Solidarity. Retrieved 2019-09-10.