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Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism

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The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad (Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice)

Melvyn L. Fein

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This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action.

Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism

Bruce Detwiler

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Radicalism and Its Demise: The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924-1931 (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies)

Bradley Geisert

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This book chronicles the dynamics of local and central partypolitics as it describes the Nationalists' turn from radical to status-quo policies and practices. Geisert revisits important issues that continue to engage scholarship on the Republican era--in particular the social and political bases of Guomindang rule. He clarifies how Guomindang factions and to a lesser extent the Chinese Communist Party competed in local-level social movements and political struggles in Jiangsu. While most studies of modern Chinese state-making focus on government institutions, the author reminds us that the party organization must also be considered an important player in this process.
Bradley Geisert teaches history at Randolph-Macon Women's College. He has published several papers on the Guomindang in Republican China.

Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War (Cambridge English Prose Texts)

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History and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970 (Critical Perspectives on the Past)

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Madison, Wisconsin has long been known as a dynamic cultural center and focus of political-intellectual ferment in the middle of America. This collection of essays and interviews traces the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970 as experienced by activists and scholars with ties to the University of Wisconsin. Its thirty-two contributors, including prominent historians, journalist-scholars, and veteran political activists, re-examine their own personal histories in different eras and draw fresh, often surprising conclusions. The city and campus of Madison provide a veritable laboratory for the study of deep continuities in American dissenting thought. Photographs and cultural documents accompany these poignant, candid oral histories. The volume explores a crucial period of Madison's intellectual life as a crossroad of history and culture. Interviews with the scholars and former students who politicized historical analysis in light of the Cold War, McCarthyism, nuclear and environmental holocaust, civil rights, and the Vietnam War, recall the debates and alliances that kept Madison in a state of ferment. Author note: Paul Buhle is Director of the Oral History of the American Left Project at the Tamiment Library of New York University and teachers U.S. History at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical

Yves Engler

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Every student should read this! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a fun and interesting look at how the author went from being a junior hockey player to becoming a student activist. It's easy to read and aimed at young people, from high school to undergrads. I suspect most old radicals (like me) will also really enjoy it. It gives me hope that the next generation of students might once again be willing to take on the system.
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Editorial Review:

This story of how a former junior hockey player became a media spokesperson for radical university students in Canada gives an inside look at the thinking, motivation, and politics of the latest generation of student activists. Answering questions such as What makes a student radical? and Can students in the 21st century play a part in changing the world?, this autobiography also explains the reasons for and importance of fostering student activism.

An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926 (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)

Takashi Shiraishi

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Takashi Shiraishi examines the emergence of an Indonesian national consciousness during the first quarter of this century, when Indonesians began to view their world in a new way, to articulate this new consciousness in modern forms, and to believe that these expressions could have a political effect.

The Age of Extremism: The Enemies of Compromise in American Politics, Culture, and Race Relations

James Gardner

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Faulty Conclusions 2 out of 5 stars.
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Extremist subcultures are one of my strongest sociological interests. Gardener does a capable job of providing a basic overview of various radical political groups, religous sects and controversial artists.

However, this book fails on two counts:

1)Gardener does a very poor job in proving his underlaying thesis, which is that contemporary mainstream society is being challenged by radical extremists more so than at any time in world history. This idea strikes me more as a gimmick to sell books than as anything that can be taken seriously. Of course, we have to go back only to the mid-1900s to remember a time when Nazism and Communism both posed a much more serious threat than the militia nuts and radical leftists that Gardner describes in this book. Of course, Islamic terrorists are our current biggest problem. But, since this book was written well before 9/11 and the Iraq War, they receive scant attention.

2) I also have a serious problem with the final chapter. It is ironically titled "The Benefits of Extremism." But instead it is an angry bashing of extremists who Gardner refers to as a "corrupt element" and an "ineradicale flaw in the human makeup." Of course, this ignores the fact that it takes people willing to challenge the mainstream status quo in order to achieve positive change. For example, the abolition of slavery and granting woman the right to vote were both considered radical ideas at an earlier time in American history. Also it took the civil rights movement of the 60's and the feminist movement of the 70's to give us many of the social freedoms that we now take for granted. So clearly so-called "extremism" is not always such a bad thing as Gardener depicts it to be.

For people interested in radical subcultures this book does make for an informative read. But don't take anything Gardener has to say too seriously.

Editorial Review:

A lively study of extremism in all aspects of the current American scene, from politics to art to scholarship, explores the motivations of extremists such as Louis Farrakhan and the Militia movement and the future of extremist groups.

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 (Harvard East Asian Series)

David Zweig

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During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move rural China to even higher stages of collectivism. David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. The limited institutionalization of the system allowed the radicals to promote their principles through "policy winds," speeches generated by newspaper articles, networks of political allies, and organized visits; they also linked their policies to ongoing political and economic campaigns. In spite of this radical ideology and frequent upheavals in the countryside, Zweig finds that Chinese peasants had no ideological affinity for Mao's theory of the continuing revolution and reacted to each policy change on the basis of how it affected their personal, family, or collective interests. Despite intense propaganda, cadres adjusted the impact of these radical policies so that the peasants' conservative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to improve their own lot remained intact.

Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.