As a new generation discovers socialism, this important text by American Marxist Hal Draper makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from the self-activity of workers.
Draper outlines the important distinction in the socialist movement between those who looked for freedom to be handed down from above and those who saw the revolutionary struggle as being led by ordinary people from below for their own liberation.
The late Hal Draper was the author of the five-volume study of Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution (Monthly Review Press).
The late Hal Draper is the author of the five-volume study of Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution as well as War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism and Berkeley: The New Student Revolt. He was also a prominent socialist journalist and editor of the journal Labor Action from 1948-1958.
Publication date: July 16, 2019
"Hal Draper may never had ‘professor' before his name but he was the greatest Marx scholar of modern times."
—Mike Davis
