The Ballot, the Streets-or Both: From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October R

Description: The Ballot, the Streets-or Both by August H. Nimtz, Jr., August H. Nimtz Lenins Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenins approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engels own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nimtz uncovers in one that attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organisation, and as a key way to measure your forces and communicate with the wider population. As radical left reformist projects, exemplified by Sanders and Corbyn, once again become a political force and the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, its a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates. Author Biography August H. Nimtz is professor of political science and African American and African studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (2000), Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The Absolute Democracy or Defiled Republic (2003), and a number of related articles in edited volumes and journals. Review "Lenins reputation as a political thinker should rest on what he wrote and the role that played in the success of the Russian Revolution, and not in what happened 70 years later. No one has made this argument as clearly and with such impressive scholarship, and, therefore too, as convincingly as August Nimtz in this volume. And for something Lenins electoral strategy that is at is at the center of most of the debates going on in progressive political parties and social movements everywhere today. We ignore Lenins thinking on this subject at our own peril." —Bertell Ollman, Professor of Politics, New York University, USA and author of Alienation and Dance of the Dialectic"Provides an impressively detailed account of the work of the Bolsheviks in the Russian par-liament, the Duma, during the pre-revolutionary period. … Nimtzs book also shows Lenins great commitment to democracy, in the face of the common right wing smears against him as an elitist or a despot. … This is a thorough and readable summary of Lenins work on elections and the nature of parliaments." —Richard Donnelly, International Socialism, Issue 157, 2018 Promotional Promotion targeting left leaning publications like the Nation, Socialist Worker.National drive-time radio tour to include Pacifica Stations.Social media publicity campaign Long Description Nimtz uncovers in one that attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organisation, and as a key way to measure your forces and communicate with the wider population. As radical left reformist projects, exemplified by Sanders and Corbyn, once again become a political force and the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, its a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates. Review Quote Lenins reputation as a political thinker should rest on what he wrote and the role that played in the success of the Russian Revolution, and not in what happened 70 years later. No one has made this argument as clearly and with such impressive scholarship, and, therefore too, as convincingly as August Nimtz in this volume. And for something Lenins electoral strategy that is at is at the center of most of the debates going on in progressive political parties and social movements everywheretoday. We ignore Lenins thinking on this subject at our own peril." - Bertell Ollman, Professor of Politics, New York University, USA and author of Alienation and Dance of the Dialectic "Provides an impressively detailed account of the work of the Bolsheviks in the Russian par-liament, the Duma, during the pre-revolutionary period. ... Nimtzs book also shows Lenins great commitment to democracy, in the face of the common right wing smears against him as an elitist or a despot. ... This is a thorough and readable summary of Lenins work on elections and the nature of parliaments." - Richard Donnelly, International Socialism , Issue 157, 2018" Description for Sales People This title was originally published as two volumes in very expensive hardback by an academic press in 2014. As a result, a unique and important historical work has until now been largely inaccessible, and that is something we hope to remedy by combining both volumes into an affordable paperback. We think that this has very good potential for course adoption. We expect the book to be widely covered by the left press, and will do direct outreach to the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and similar stores. As a unique contribution to Russian history, this should also find a home in larger stores with social science sections. Details ISBN1642590355 Publisher Haymarket Books Year 2019 ISBN-10 1642590355 ISBN-13 9781642590357 Pages 540 Short Title The Ballot, the Streets--Or Both Language English Format Paperback Subtitle From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution Imprint Haymarket Books Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2019-12-19 UK Release Date 2019-12-19 Author August H. Nimtz Audience General AU Release Date 2019-11-20 Publication Date 2019-11-05 US Release Date 2019-11-05 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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