An Impatient Life - A Memoir

From his family bistro in a staunchly red neighborhood of Toulouse to the founding of the Jeunesses communist revolutionaries in the 1960s to the re-reading of Marx, a founder member of the Ligue Communiste relates a life of ideological and practical struggle as he tried to understand capitalism.

About the author

Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, and was the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French Revolution and Joan of Arc. The Marxists' Internet Archive has a list of obituaries at http://www.marxists.org/archive/bensaid/obits/index.htmTariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome-as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Tariq Ali, Daniel Bensaid, Daniel/ Ali Bensaid, Daniel Bensaïd
• Assisted by: Tariq Ali (Foreword), David Fernbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2015
• EAN: 9781781688182
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-818-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Memoirs, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Marxism & Communism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs