NEW TITLE - Ernest Mandel: A Rebel?s Dream Deferred
Jan Willem Stutje
With a foreword by Tariq Ali
Translated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker
Published 18th May 2009
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Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most
prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals
of his time. A political theorist and economist,
his worldview was shaped by experiences in the
Second World War as an underground political
activist in Occupied Belgium and during his
subsequent internment in a Nazi prison
camp. Mandel?s faith in human nature and in the
working classes survived Nazi oppression and the
murder of much of his family in the
concentration camps. He retained his connection
to his Jewish roots throughout his life, but
believed that security and liberation for the
Jewish people was best achieved through world
revolution and universal emancipation rather
than nationalism. A brilliant orator in
several languages, Mandel was an indefatigable
revolutionary militant and a key leader in the
Fourth International, He had an enormous impact
on the thought and practice of the 1968
generation. His writings range from innovative
economic and political theory to a study of the
Second World War and have been published in over
forty languages. His last major work, Late
Capitalism, had an influence that reached from
the social sciences into the
humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje, the
first writer with access to Mandel's archives,
has interviewed many of the leading figures in
the story and unearthed a wealth of new
material, detailing Mandel?s arrest by the Nazis
and his role in Latin American guerrilla
warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions with
both scholars ? Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry
Anderson - and comrades-in-arms such as Che
Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book
also yields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life.
JAN WILLEM STUTJE is a historian affiliated with
the Institute of Biography at the University of
Groningen. He has published a life of Dutch
Communist Party leader Paul de Groot and studies
of the Dutch and international labour movement
in scholarly publications in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Praise for Ernest Mandel: A Rebel?s Dream Deferred:
?An extraordinary accomplishment. This book
deserves a place of honour in the library of
anyone who is interested in the history of
twentieth-century revolutionary socialism.? Walter Lotens, Kritisch lezen
?A masterful and critical biography that reads
like a thriller.? Fred Braeckman, De Morgen
?Stutje does a good job of avoiding the
temptations of hagiography, and paints a
fascinating portrait of Mandel, a Marxist
thinker and radical political figure who is
undeservedly almost forgotten.? Piet Piryns and Hubert van Humbeek, Knack
?This impressive scholarly biography deals not
only with Ernest Mandel, but equally with the
success and tribulations of the Trotskyist
movement that he helped lead for decades and
with society as a whole. This smoothly written
book inadvertently evokes the image of a
biblical prophet, whose personal life and
happiness, loves, friendships and career were
sacrificed time and again to the great struggle
against exploitation and injustice ? a man who
knew that he had to give up everything except hope.? Ludo Abicht, AKTIEF
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