Breaking the Impasse - Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United States

A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Impasse
2. “Upward“ and Rightward
3. The History and Future of the 2020 Elections
4. The New Social Democratic Nostalgia: Class, Race, and “Coalition Politics”
5. The Politics of Winning: How Mass Action Brought Victory
6. Reversing the “Model”: How Will the Millions Get Organized?
7. A Season of Inflammable Materials, Economic Dislocation, and Political Instability

About the author

Kim Moody is a founder of Labor Notes in the US and is the author of several books on labor and politics, including Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900 and On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping The Battleground Of Class War. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster in London, and a member of the University and College Union and the National Union of Journalists.

Summary

A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.

Foreword

• Promotion targeting left leaning publications like the Nation, Jacobin, Dissent.


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Product details

• Authors: Kim Moody
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2022
• EAN: 9781642597011
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-701-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Elections and referenda / suffrage