100 Best Non Fiction list of Counterpunch

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sun Jan 23 15:06:48 PST 2000


Eugene Genovese, "Roll Jordan Roll."

Roy Medvedev, "Let History Judge." Russian dissident Marxist history of Stalinism, get the revised 2nd ed. from Columbia. [Good esp. for those comrades who were steeped in the mid-30's full of slander, "History of the CPSU(B)]

Rudolf Bahro, "The Alternative In Eastern Europe. "

A. Heller et. al. "The Dictatorship Over Needs."

Victor Serge, "Year One Of The Russian Revolution."

Harold Isaacs, "The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. "

Livio Maitan, "Party, Army and Masses in China."

Theodor Adorno, "Minima Moralia."

M. Merlau Ponty, "Adventures of the Dialectic."

Russell Jacoby, "Dialectic of Defeat," (on western Marxism) also his just reissued, "Social Amnesia, " with the brilliant critique of the New Left in the chapter, "The Politics of Subjectivity."

Christopher Lasch, "The Culture of Narcissism, " and , "The Agony of the American Left."

W.A. Williams, "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy."

Harold Cruse, "The Crisis of The Negro Intellectual"

Jeffrey Alexander, "Theoretical Logic in Sociology."

Nicos Poulanzas, "State, Power, Socialism."

Francois Furet, "The Passing Of An Illusion."

Dwight MacDonald, "Memoirs Of A Revolutionist."

Peter Dale Scott, "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK."

Franz Schurmann, "Primacy and World Power, " and I hear his book on Ideology and the Chinese Revolution too is good, haven't touched.

Gerard Chaliand, "Revolution In The Third World. "

Jim O' Connor, "The Fiscal Crisis Of The State. "

Gabriel Kolko, "A Century Of War. "

Fred Block, "The Origins Of Int'l. Econ. Crisis."

Manuel Castells, the newish volumes on the Network Society.

Seyla Ben-Habib, "Critique, Norm and Utopia."

Sidney Hook, "Towards the Understanding Of Karl Marx. " Hard as hell to find, I found a copy for 10 dollars. The later sharp right Hook, never let it be republished, Christopher Phillips has a newish bio/study of the 1930's Hook.

Isaac Deutscher, "Marxism, Wars, and Revolutions." Of course the 3 vols on Trotsky too.

Rakesh mentioned Lewis Corey/Louis Fraina. See Paul Buhle's bio, "A Dreamer's Paradise Lost."

Kirkpatrick Sale, "S.D.S."

Fernando Claudin, "The Communist Movement." 2 vols.

Richard Gombin, "The Radical Tradition."

J. Habermas, "Legitimation Crisis."

Joseph Freeman, "An American Testament."

And finally for comedic purposes, "Iron Curtain Over America, " by Jack Beatty with the immortal chapter, "The Khazars Take Over The Democratic Party." Gotta watch out for those Khazars, must be some ex-Trotskyists doing some "deep entry" "French turn-cum realignment maneuver" I'll call Social Democrats, USA and DSA and the CPUSA and ask if they have any Khazars there. Is Nathan a Khazar? BTW, what is a Khazar?

Michael Pugliese



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